Ka taƙaita labarin:  Wani itace mai shekaru 4,000 da aka yi tunanin cewa shi ne mafi tsufa kwayoyin halitta a Burtaniya na iya mutuwa bisa ga mai kula da shi. Kyakkyawan Ashbrittle Yew, a cikin hurumi na Ikklisiyar Ikklisiya na St John Baptist, a Somerset, yana da kewayon 38ft da babban babban canopy. Gininsa na tsakiya yana da rami tare da ƙananan ƙananan rassa shida - mai yiwuwa saboda cutar - kuma mazauna yankin suna tsoron yana kan hanyarsa ta fita saboda rassan rassan da faduwar ganye. Itacen mai shekaru 4,000 'yana da rashin lafiya sosai,' a cewar wani mai kula da cocin a Ashbrittle, Somerset. Mai kula da cocin Charles Doble ya ce: 'An ce itacen shi ne mafi tsufa a Ingila kuma ya riga ya yi girma sosai sa'ad da ake gina Stonehenge. 'Masana sun ce yana da shekaru 3,500 zuwa 4,000. 'Amma yana da matukar rashin lafiya a wannan lokacin kuma ina damuwa ko coci na karkara ko yew zai mutu da farko.' Amma masanin itatuwa Dr Owen Johnson ya ce yew, a kauyen mil 10 yamma da Taunton, na iya kawai ta hanyar wani mummunan patch. Ya ce: 'Suna da lokacin da kamar ba sa ci gaba, amma bayan 'yan shekaru sai su yi kyau.' Ashbrittle Yew shine batun tatsuniyoyi da almara kuma mutane sun yi imanin cewa tudun da yake girma a kan shi ne Bronze Age kuma an binne wani shugaba na pre-Roman a can. Itace mafi tsufa a duniya yana zaune a kan dutse a tsakiyar Sweden <unk> kuma har yanzu yana girma. Masana kimiyya a Jami'ar Umeå sun gano itacen Norwegian Spruce mai shekara 9,500 (wanda aka nuna a hannun dama) a lokacin ƙidayar bishiyoyi a shekara ta 2004 a Fulufjällets National Park a Sweden. An tabbatar da shekarun itacen ta amfani da carbon-14 a dakin gwaje-gwaje a Miami, Florida bayan binciken da jami'ar ta yi. Ya sami damar tsira tsawon lokaci saboda tsarin yaduwar tsirrai, wanda ke nufin yana iya yin kwafin kansa yadda ya kamata. Duk da yake sashin da ake gani na itacen mai tsayin kafa 13 sabo ne, tsarin tushen sa ya kasance yana girma kusan shekaru dubu goma.
Masana sun ce Ashbrittle Yew ya balaga lokacin da aka gina Stonehenge. Mazauna yankin suna fargabar cewa 'ta yi rashin lafiya sosai' saboda rassan da ke bushewa da kuma faduwar ganye. Amma wani likitan itace ya yi tunanin cewa wataƙila 'yan'uwan suna cikin'munanan yanayi' ne