600 year old Olive tree [#TreeTuesday]

in #photography8 years ago (edited)

Dear woodsmen,

here are two images of an amazing old tree, I photographed in Palma de Mallorca, Balearic Islands in Spain.

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The tree is located on a small square called "Plaza de Cort" and is therefore known as the "Cort Olive" – (Cort is the Catalan word for Court.) You'd think it had been there forever – but it hasn't!

The tree lived in a finca, Pedruixella Petit, in the Pollensa area of the Sierra Tramuntana for five or six hundred years before it was dug up and transplanted in Palma in 1999, when it weighed 3.4 tonnes. It was chosen to be a symbol of peace and attachment to the island because of its age and that fact that Mallorca is typified by its thousands of Olive trees which grow island wide. [...] Despite being transplanted the tree (Olea europaea var. Europaea) still produces fruit every year.
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Can you see any faces or figures in the tree trunk?

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I love how the trunk twists and contorts, id love to get my hands and toes in there, provided it won't hurt the tree :)
It's quite amazing that it still bears after being transplanted at such a mature stage.

Yes, I can totally understand the wish to touch this tree. I guess it's not allowed, though. Way too many tourists round there. It seems, the saying, that you cannot shift an old tree does not apply to every tree.

Youv've got to wonder what this tree has witnessed in all those years. What conversations have been held under its shade. So glad it still bears fruit. Thank you for posting this

My pleasure :-)

Wow!!!. God is wonderful. A tree can stay up to 600 years ?

Yes, I guess some trees are even more than 4000 years old. Impressive, isn't it?

Yes. Am impressed

Wooow, amazing one!!

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Olive trees have so much character.

True, I also like Olive trees a lot and this one has lots of character :-)