Trees in Sweden

This oak has seen Vikings, the Black Death, and world wars pass but refuses to give up.

Where a troll might repair your shoes in exchange for a bowl of porridge.

A centuries-old olive tree thrives in a small botanical garden.

A collection of birches from across Sweden.

A collection of trees from various corners of the world call Stockholm University home.

A living descendant of the famous tree that helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity.

This collection of Dwarf beech trees were once believed to be enchanted trolls in disguise.

A semi-sterile mutant birch that became Sweden's national tree.

This tree was once used to calculate the decrease of the Baltic Sea.

An ancient tree that was once the favorite of a young Swedish royal.

Few remain of these distinctive old trees that once served as natural landmarks for travelers on the road.

Legend says this fabled well held part of a mythical Norse tree.

What looks like a birch tree smushed between two pieces of glass often confounds commuters.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.

The scars of a remarkably organized public protest to save 13 elm trees are still visible in this Stockholm park.