Träd i Malmö

Meet Malmö's interesting and beautiful trees! 12 different, exciting tree walks with each 20 trees. The walk will take you to different parts of Malmö: to the city's parks, the city center or to some old and new residential areas.
The trees are part of Malmö's ecosystem. They clean the air, lower the summer temperature, provide shelter and breathing and much more. The city's structure is determined by its streets, buildings and trees. The trees help us find the right one and make us feel at home. The trees make Malmö more beautiful and greener!
Malmö is built on shore meadows, on arable land and fillings in the sea. In the open landscape we strive for protection, protection that the trees can give us. The trees give the cityscape character, which changes over time. Just over 10 years ago, the common tree was the most common tree in Malmö. Then the alms disease struck. The alms died or got cleaned up.
Today, Malmö's most common tree is oxen. It's no wonder. It is the tree in the Swedish flora that can best with strong winds, salt splashes, brilliant sun and stormy seas.
In Malmö there are trees from all over the world. Emperor trees, tulip trees, ambras trees, god trees, black pine, caucasian wing nuts, mammoth trees, gingko, snakeskin stalls, nutkacy press, to name but a few. Kungsparken, completed in 1870, has a unique collection of exotic trees that are beautiful, old and stately.
On the tree walks you can meet trees that smell, for example, katsuran that smells of freshly baked bread, trees that bloom with a fantastic splendor, for example two-color horse chestnut, trees used as medicines, for example linden. At the Eastern Cemetery you can meet the fantastic park linden. Originally 96 trees, 48 ​​on each side, which with a unique pruning technique have become a tree on each side.
Hopefully you will also find your very own favorites in the city's unique and rich tree treasure.
If you want to know more about Malmö's fantastic tree treasure, you can find more information in the book Trees in Malmö. The tree walks are based on the book.
Trees in Malmö, both the app and the book, is a collaboration between ABF, Malmö Förskönings- og Planteringsförening and Malmö city.
If you want to know more about Malmö's fantastic tree treasure, you can find more information in the book Trees in Malmö. The book is a collaboration between ABF, Malmö Förskönings- og Planteringsförening, Malmö city and Kira publishing house.

The Tree Walks Trees in Malmö is a collaboration between Malmö Förskönings- og Planteringsförening and the City of Malmö and is based on the book Trees in Malmö.