Sunday, April 20, 2008

THE TULE TREE







Is a tree located in the church grounds in the town center of Santa María del Tule in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, approximately 9 km east the city of Oaxaca on the road to Mitla. It is a Montezuma Cypress (Taxodium mucronatum), or Ahuehuete in the Nahuatl language. It has the stoutest trunk of any tree in the world. its trunk had a circumference of 36.2 m two years ago The height is difficult to measure due to the very broad crown The tree is occasionally nicknamed the "Tree of Life" from all the images of animals that are reputedly visible in the tree, and if you observe all trees has something special, maybe because there are something special that the nature show us in the plants

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