As I'm sure some of you know from my posts I have a few obsessions, beyond the general obsession about trees, one of which is ancient/historic/veteran/historic trees. I spend a fair bit of my time trawling the net and physically travelling around my region finding such trees (BTW very few where I actually live
) so am always surprised and interested when I come across examples.
Had a conversation with treeseer not long ago about how I often wish trees were more sensitive to the damage we inflict on them, as then perhaps we as a community would treat trees with a fraction of the care we apply to roses or orchids!! So when I came across the example of the Tree Of Life near Bahrain I thought I would use it as a starter for this thread about significant trees........
The Tree of Life : Shajarat al-Hayah is a 400-year old mesquite tree in Bahrain which is considered a natural wonder. This unique tree stands alone in the desert about 1.2 miles (two kilometers) from the Jebel Dukhan. The source of water for this tree still remains a mystery, and this is still the case in a country where drilling exploration has revealed much of the geological mysteries hidden from the surface. I'm not suggesting anything mystical just that this mesquite has access to water that has not been located, they'll do that trees!
Here's a map with the location (roughly) shown in red..can't give you a satellite shot since I don't pay google for that right..
So what you can do is bring up google maps on your pc then find Bahrain, zoom into the rough area and click satellite and zoom on in..you'll find the tree easily!!
Here's some shot taken through 2002-2005
