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