European Tree of the Year
The beech tree “Heart of the Dalkowskie Hills” from Poland wins the title of the European Tree of the Year 2025 with 147,553 votes. The second place takes Portuguese ficus tree “The Lovers Banyan Tree,” followed by the pine tree “Pino de Juan Molinera” from Spain. Overall, an incredible 401,262 valid votes have been cast for all 15 trees in the contest in 2025.
The European Tree of the Year contest originated in 2011. It was inspired by the popular Tree of the Year contest, which has been organised in the Czech Republic by the Czech Environmental Partnership Foundation for many years. The European round is a finale consisting of the winners of the national rounds.
Every year in February, the online voting for the European Tree of the Year is organised by Environmental Partnership Association (EPA). The first European voting was organised in 2011. Since then the number of countries involved in the contest has risen from 5 to 16.
Criteria
Trees that have won the national rounds of the Tree of the Year competition are submitted to the award by the organisers of those national rounds. Application to the national rounds varies.
Deadline
Applications are now closed.Contact
katerina.boleckova@nap.czPrevious winners
| 2025 | 1st place: Heart of the Dalkowskie Hills from Poland, 147,553 votes | Link | |
| 2025 | 2nd place: The Lovers Banyan Tree from Portugal, 43,427 votes | Link | |
| 2025 | 3rd place: Pino de Juan Molinera from Spain, 36,873 votes | Link | |
| 2024 | 1st place: The Heart of the Garden, Poland, 39,158 votes | Link | |
| 2024 | 2nd place: The Weeping Beech of Bayeux, France, 24,807 votes | Link | |
| 2024 | 3rd place: The Thousand-year-old Olive Tree of Luras, Italy, 13,933 votes | Link | |
| 2023 | 1st place: Oak Fabrykant, Poland | Link | |
| 2022 | 1st place: Oak Dunin, Poland | Link | |
| 2021 | 1st place: The Millennial Carrasca of Lecina, Spain | Link | |
| 2020 | 1st place: Guardian of the Flooded Village, Czechia | Link | |
| 2019 | 1st place: The Almond Tree of the Snowy Hill in Pécs, Hungary | Link | |
| 2018 | 1st place: Whistler cork oak tree, Portugal | Link | |
| 2017 | 1st place: Oak Józef, Poland | Link | |
| 2016 | 1st place: The oldest tree of Bátaszék, Hungary | Link | |
| 2015 | 1st place: Oak tree on a football field, Estonia | Link | |
| 2014 | 1st place: The Old Elm, Bulgaria | Link | |
| 2013 | 1st place: Plane tree in Eger, Hungary | Link | |
| 2012 | 1st place: The Old Lime Tree od Felsőmocsolád, Hungary | Link | |
| 2011 | 1st place: Lime in Leliceni, Romania | Link |
