There are yew trees still growing whose wood was sued to make the English bows at Agincourt – and a few much older than that. The Fortingall Yew in Scotland was at least a thousand years old before the Romans arrived here – and there’s a quaking aspen in Utah which is believed to be 80,000 years old, although in that case it’s the core of the root system which is ancient, rather than the individual trunks.
There are yew trees still growing whose wood was sued to make the English bows at Agincourt – and a few much older than that. The Fortingall Yew in Scotland was at least a thousand years old before the Romans arrived here – and there’s a quaking aspen in Utah which is believed to be 80,000 years old, although in that case it’s the core of the root system which is ancient, rather than the individual trunks.