Only about 15 minutes from Oaxaca is a small town called Santa Maria del Tule. Right in the town center by the colonial cathedral is one of the largest trees in the world. This ancient cyprus tree is over 2000 year old and about 100 feet in diameter. The redwoods in California were the tallest trees I had ever seen, but this one is definitely the widest! For perspective, you can see a man walking around the backside of the tree in the photo.
Arbol del Tule
Posted by suzanne on September 28, 2008 at 6:00 pm
There was a tree in our woods growing up that, to children, was so enormously large. We named it “Grandfather Tree” and often hugged it. Random, but you took me back to that backyard woods…
Posted by Wes on September 28, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Thanks for visiting and commenting, Suzanne! What kind of tree was it?
Posted by Crafty Green Poet on October 15, 2008 at 12:40 pm
amazing tree, there’s so much character in the trunk!
Posted by M. D. Vaden of Oregon on June 19, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Nice looking tree. I’m not sure if I’ll get down to Mexico, but if I do, it will probably be in 5 to 10 years. This looks like a good sight to keep in mind.
It is really quite an attractive tree.
MDV
Oregon