Colombia's Largest Tree Is So Big in Diameter, It Has Grown Pillars to Support Its Branches

It's not just one tree, but six trees joined together. Historian Raúl Ospino Rangel gives a splandid description of how the green mass was formed. It all started when in 1964 the owner of the Alejandría farm wanted to protect a yellow cedar tree that he had planted. They placed six fig tree rods around the sapling to prevent the cattle from damaging the young cedar. But the opposite happened: instead of giving security to the cedar tree, the fig tree struts sprouted buds and then branches, which eventually ended up absorbing and devouring the yellow cedar.