 According to the Iasi Environmental Protection Agency's official data, the tree is approximately 458 years old.A more recent survey conducted using an increment borer, placed the tree at 540 years of age (+- 3%).The tree was used as a civic symbol by the students who protested, in February 2013, against the removal (by felling) of the linden tree alignment in the Iaşi city centre, and its replacement by the local municipality with miniature Japanese shrubs.