This is the smallest of the three protected kermes oaks at Koruluk, with a trunk about 80 centimetres across, and it stands two kilometres from the centre of Kızılören village rather than the 2.5 kilometres given for its two neighbours. All three were registered on 6 September 2002, and this one covers 0.10 hectares in Dazkırı district of Afyonkarahisar province.
Eighty centimetres is still well beyond the usual size for kermes oak, which is a scrub species, and that is the whole reason for the protection: the directorate registered the tree for its age and girth and describes it as one of the thickest kermes oaks known in Türkiye.
Kermes oaks and black pine saplings make up the surrounding ground. Nothing has been built at the site and there is no concessionaire; capacity is recorded as 100 visitors and 10 vehicles.
The locality is called Kürdezi, also given as Üçardıçlar-Koruluk.
- Designated
- 6.09.2002
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- 08:30 - 17:30
When to go
- Climate
- Across Afyonkarahisar as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.4 °C in January to 22.2 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (56 mm) and lightest in August (14 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
