Amazig

Yew ‘Henryk’

The oldest tree in Poland is a yew tree, commonly known as yew ‘Henryk’, which grows next to a gable wall of a barn in a village called Henryków Lubański, in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is about 1300 years old, its height reaches 15 m.

Henryk’s stem was badly damaged several times: by Cossack soldiers in the 19th century, by a shell during the Second Workd War and by strong winds in 1989, when one of its offshoots was destroyed. That is why its circumference now is 1,5 m from previous 5 m.