Carrasca Milenaria de Lecina

In 2021 a holm oak at the edge of a Huesca village collected 104,264 votes and won European Tree of the Year, the largest total the contest has recorded. Spain had named it its own tree of the year the season before. The Carrasca Milenaria is a carrasca, the drought-adapted form of holm oak that inland Aragon grows, and what it has done with a thousand years of space is the whole argument for the drive: a crown roughly 28 metres across, covering some 615 square metres of ground, on a tree only about 16.5 metres tall. Wider than it is high, which is what a holm oak becomes when nothing crowds it. The trunk depends on who measured it. Spanish Wikipedia and the tree's own site give a girth of 610 centimetres; Wikidata records 700. The age is vaguer still. Every source repeats a round thousand or eleven hundred years, and not one of them cites a core sample or a ring study, so this is the village's traditional reckoning rather than a dated figure. Nobody has established it properly. If you know of a study that has, tell us. Getting there takes four minutes from the village centre, along a path between stone walls and past an old threshing floor. Low barriers ring the base, there to keep feet off the root plate rather than to keep you back.