but using DNA proved that this is just one huge tree,
the Tree of Tule, is a 2,000-year-old Montezuma cypress that
now has the claim to having the world’s thickest trunk, it is growing in
a church courtyard, in the town of Santa Maria del Tule, Mexico, it
has a circumference of an amazing 42 meters, it may be easier to
visualise 30 people with outstretched arms forming a circle, it
is huge! photograph Wikimedia Commons,
this photograph by Keith Anderson gives a really good idea of scale, the Tree of
Tule is actually the tree of life for the people of Santa Maria del Tule,
as as many as three quarters of the local population relies directly on this
popular tourist attraction for their livelihoods, it is amazing to think that this tree had started to grow just as this thermopolium was being covered in ash from Mount Vesuvius.
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