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Lago yew

Allande, Narcea, Asturias

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Lago yew

Nature · Allande, Narcea, Asturias

The Lago yew is a thousand-year-old specimen of the species Taxus baccata that grows beside the parish church of the hamlet of Lago, in the concejo of Allande, where the tree was once venerated by local communities and the Catholic Church took advantage of that devotion to build its churches beside it. It measures 16 metres in height, 9 in canopy spread and just under 6 in trunk girth. It was declared a natural monument on 27 April 1995, is protected by the Asturian Plan de Ordenación de los Recursos Naturales (Regional Land-Use Plan) and lies within the protected landscape of the Sierras de Carondio y Valledor.

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