Llangernyw Yew (June 2024)
On holiday in Wales, I visited a 4000 year old Yew Tree, in Llangernyw.
Really huge.
No central trunk but the branches have replanted into three "daughters".
Quite a lot of "petrified" elements, more pronounced than on the Yew tree near my house:
Compare to the Llangernyw Yew:
Strange skin/flesh quality on some of the trunks and branches, this marbling effect like a Blake etching. Layers of different colours of skin peeling off.
Classic Yew gnarls, but just a lot more than I've seen in one place before.
And amazing roots. A lot going on.
All the human interventions around and about it, like
the proclamation from the conservation foundation
the explanation from town council / tree council (sponsored by ESSO)
the Celtic Rose and Cross monument right next to it
the explanatory board outside the Church
even the headstones and church, the roads, the buildings in the rest of the village, all the shops and vehicles, they all pale into in comparison set against this deep time artefact, that is still very much alive and can be felt