Dendrological Secrets of the Pazaislis Monastery in Central Lithuania: DNA Markers and Morphology Reveal × L. Hybrids of an Impressive Age.

We benefited from the availability of a species-specific DNA marker to describe the morphometry of × hybrids of an impressive age (ca. 150 years) grown in the Pazaislis baroque monastery yard in Central Lithuania. In an earlier study on a country-wide set of 543 individuals from natural forest populations in Lithuania, we detected a nuclear microsatellite locus Tc8 well-differentiating between and .