Birikubo Park - Tama

The tree is big!

Nature! !! The autumn colors are beautiful!

Hirakubo is a small print of Onoji. It features a huge Shii called Hirakubo's Shii.

It used to be a nature playground for Tama City Minami-Ochiai Elementary School children. Not on the map, but there is a small company

There is Shiinoki, a natural monument designated by Tokyo, which was protected from the development of Tama New Town.

After all, Shii is overwhelming. (• ‿ •) From the sign below As you can see, Sudajii has a trunk circumference of about 4.5 meters and a height of about 25 meters. There are five castanopsis trees designated as natural monuments in Tokyo, excluding the islands, but this tree is the tallest. This area is an area that was transferred from Machida City to Tama City in 1968. Tama City Board of Education Tokyo designated natural monument Birikubo Hirakubo's Shii January 31, 1952 Castanopsis sieboldii, which belongs to the family Fagaceae, is an evergreen tree that is the most central part of the laurel forest in Japan. It grows on a gently sloping slope from south to west near the top of the park, which is left in the shape of a small hill in a part of Tama Town. Two large and small castanopsis grow branches on each other, the leaves are densely overgrown, and the tree shape is like a bowl, and a small shrine is built at the base of the dense tree. Since it is a giant tree that forms a canopy with two castanopsis, the two are preserved and managed as one. It is important to maintain such a thick canopy in order to maintain the vigor of these castanopsis trees. It is a large tree that retains the remnants of the Tama Hills before the development of Tama New Town. By the way, the height of a large plant designated as a natural monument is 25 m, and the trunk circumference is 5.9 m. Let's cherish cultural properties Construction in March 1990 Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education