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United Kingdom: the oldest tree changes sex
Yew belongs to a dioecious plant, which It means the presence of male and female reproductive organs on different individuals. Cis growing at the cemetery in Fortingall in central Scotland has been regarded as a male, but recently noticed on one of the branches of the characteristic red fruit, appropriate for females.
– This phenomenon is rare and not fully explained – told AFP Max Coleman, a botanist with the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh.
The changes taking place in the age Cisie to be now the subject of careful observation botanists.
Yew of Fortingall is widely considered to be the oldest tree in the UK, although its age is difficult from the term because in the middle of the tree is rotten. It is believed that it may have from two to five thousand years. Since the eighteenth century, the tree is surrounded by a protective wall that protects them from destruction by humans, but other than that nothing he does not threaten and, according to botanists tree will still grow many centuries.
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