Selatin is a neighborhood in Germencik district of Aydın province. The neighborhood, located at the foot of Aydın Mountains, has the end of the 75th Year Selatin Tunnel in Aydın. There is also a monumental tree in the neighborhood.
A monumental tree is a tree that is distinguished from other trees of its kind due to its physical characteristics or historical and cultural importance.
The definition of a monumental tree in the "Monumental Trees Inventory Selection Rules and Marking Standard" prepared by the Turkish Standards Institute is as follows: "A tree that has a natural life long enough to build a bridge between the past and the present, the present and the future, and that reaches dimensions far beyond the usual dimensions of its kind in terms of age, trunk diameter, crown diameter and height; or has a special place in the history, mystical culture and folklore of the region."
Detection and protection of monumental trees.
In each country, trees that meet certain predetermined criteria are determined and registered as monumental trees by the competent authorities of that place.
Cultural monument trees: These are trees that have a positive or negative, real or imaginary, mystical or folkloric story in the culture of the region or that have been identified with national historical events and have witnessed them. There are three different types:
historical monument trees
mystical monument trees
folkloric monument trees
Dimensional monument trees: These are trees that reach sizes far above the usual dimensions of trees of their kind in terms of dimensional characteristics such as height, age, trunk and crown, and are at least a hundred years old and have a natural lifespan.
Visual monument trees: These are trees that have different visual characteristics such as candelabra, fork, horizontal, curved and different trunk fusion, and that significantly deviate from the natural appearance.
Some monumental trees found in Türkiye
Oklubalı Junipers in İnönü, Eskişehir
Mızıkçam in Domaniç, Kütahya
Ulufeli Plane Tree in Bedirge, Hatay
Mastic Tree in Bakırköy, Istanbul
Şecer-i Vak vak plane tree in Sultanahmet, Istanbul
Chestnuts of İbradı, Antalya
Taşlı Plane Tree in Gülhane, Istanbul
Mengerli Plane Tree in Beyköy, Beydağı, Izmir
Uşaklı Pine in Güvemköy, Bolu
Eskicibaba Plane Tree in Orhan Mosque Courtyard in Bursa
Olive Tree on Top of Selatin Village, Aydın
Oriental Plane Tree on Hamamyolu Street, Eskişehir
Oriental Plane Tree in Subatan Yaylası, Salihli, Izmir
Gümeli in Alaplı District of Zonguldak Yew
Taurus Cedar Tree in Antalya Elmali Çığlıkara Forest