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by fsloth 944 days ago
Interesting. Crete has the stupendously ancient olive tree of vouves [0].

It’s as public as trees get. Otoh it’s on the yard of a building complex. You can walk to it, hug it, go hide inside it’s hollow trunk.

I don’t know how much tourism it receives but it seems to be doing fine.

But it’s watched all the time. And if someone wants to cut down illegally some olivet rees there are much less guarded ones to pick from.

Ancient trees are awesome.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_tree_of_Vouves