Photo: Camilla Morselli (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Six and a half metres around the trunk and twenty six metres up, this is the largest tree in a garden that fills one whole city block, and for four years it has been at the centre of an argument ab...
Montezuma Cypress
This is the species that holds the fattest trunk on earth, the Arbol del Tule in Oaxaca, and the four mapped here are working in the same direction if nowhere near the same scale. This page maps every montezuma cypress on the site, 11 so far across 5 cities.
Florence's is seven metres around and was hit by lightning barely a decade ago. Lisbon's, in the Jardim da Parada, is six and a half metres around and the biggest thing in a garden that fills an entire city block. Taxodium mucronatum is Mexico's national tree, the ahuehuete, planted at springs by the Aztecs, and Naples has nicknamed its own the Tree of Thule after the giant in Oaxaca. Madrid's, in the Retiro's parterre, comes with two origin stories that cannot both be true and estimates running from 200 years to 390. In a mild winter it keeps enough of its needles never to look properly bare.
Lisbon
Florence
Photo: Line1 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Nothing else in Florence comes from Mexico, has a trunk seven metres around, and survived being struck by lightning barely a decade ago.
Madrid
This tree carries two stories about its own birth that cannot both be true.
Naples
Nicknamed the Tree of Thule after Mexico's own famous, vastly older specimen of the same species, this cypress was among the first of its kind planted anywhere in Naples, identified by Michele Teno...
Mexico City
The first tree Mexico City ever declared natural heritage stands behind a primary school.
Eighteen and a half metres around.
Photo: ProtoplasmaKid (CC BY-SA 4.0)
This tree has a birthday, which on this page is rare.
Mexico City had protected no trees by name at all until 2025, and this was one of the first two it named.
The famous tree of Tacuba is a ruin, and this is the one still growing.
This ahuehuete may or may not have been standing when the United States army took the convent behind it.
The river this tree is named after is not there any more.
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