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A couple of years ago we spent our summer holiday on the small Danish Island Ærø. As usual, we tried to see every dolmen and burial mound existing, ;o) and on one of the dolmens grew an incredibly old and huge hawthorn. We thought it to be just some very old tree from the distance, but when we were close we could clearly identify it as a hawthorn.

I have forgotten exactly when and why, but a couple of centuries back, the whole island was literally stripped of all trees, and if I remember correctly we read somewhere that this tree has been spared that fate, was literally the only one left and is now the oldest tree on the island. It must be at least 400 years old then - but no matter how old exactly, it's certainly one of the most impressing and beautiful trees I've ever met.

More recently, I'm thinking this is how the Ent girls must have looked.