The Himalayan Cedar of the Labyrinth

This cedar grows in the oldest surviving garden of its kind in Barcelona, a neoclassical estate commissioned in 1791 that later grew a romantic wing around it, cypress maze included. The Himalayan cedar itself is a relative latecomer to that story, planted around 1910 in what the estate calls its domestic garden, alongside a silver lime it still shares the plot with today. Himalayan cedars come from the mountains between Afghanistan and Nepal, where the wood was prized for shipbuilding and temple construction; this one has spent over a century adapting to Mediterranean summers instead. A storm at some point in its life snapped its main growth leader, the topmost shoot that normally directs a conifer's upward climb, and the tree has grown on with a slightly altered silhouette ever since, its crown now 22 metres across. The park charges admission most days, one of only two remarkable trees on this list that do, but waives it on Wednesdays and Sundays, the arrangement most of Barcelona's public gardens outside the Ciutadella still keep.