Pfupisa nyaya yacho:  Muti une makore 4.000 okuberekwa unofungidzirwa kuva chisikwa chipenyu chakare zvikurusa cheBritain ungave uri kufa mukuwirirana nomuchengeti wawo. Ashbrittle Yew inoshamisa, iri muchivanze chechechi yeparishi yeSt John the Baptist, muSomerset, ine upamhi hwemamita 38 uye denga guru rakakura. Muzamu waro riri pakati rakaoma uye mamwe maduku matanhatu ari kutsauka - zvichida nemhaka yechirwere - uye vagari vomunzvimbomo vanotya kuti riri kubuda nemhaka yemapazi ari kuoma uye mashizha ari kudonha. Muti une makore 4.000 'unoratidzika kuva unorwara zvikuru,' mukuwirirana nomutariri pachechi muAshbrittle, Somerset. Muchengeti wechechi Charles Doble akati: 'Muti wacho unofungidzirwa kuva chinhu chokare zvikurusa chipenyu muEngland uye wakanga watova wakakura zvikuru apo Stonehenge yakanga ichivakwa. 'Nyanzvi dzinoti ane makore 3.500 kusvika ku4.000. 'Asi pari zvino zvinhu hazvina kumira zvakanaka uye ndiri kunetseka kuti chechi yomumaruwa here kana kuti muti womuouki ndiwo uchatanga kufa.' Asi nyanzvi yemiti Dr. Owen Johnson akati muti wacho, uri mumusha uri makiromita 16 kumadokero kweTaunton, ungave uri kungopfuura nomunhambo yakaipa. Iye akati: 'Vanopfuura nomunhambo umo vangaratidzika sokunge havasi kubudirira, asi makore mashomanene gare gare vangaratidzika kuva vakanaka.' The Ashbrittle Yew inyaya yenhema nengano uye vanhu vanodavira kuti gomo rinokura pairi ndereNguva yeBronze uye kuti mukuru wepamberi peRoma akavigwa ipapo. Muti mukuru zvikurusa wenyika unogara mugomo riri pakati peSweden <unk> uye uchiri kukura. Muti weSpruce wokuNorway une makore 9.500 (unoratidzwa kurudyi) wakawanikwa nemasayendisiti paUmeå University pavaiverenga miti muna 2004 muFulufjällets National Park kuSweden. Zera romuti wacho rakasimbiswa pachishandiswa carbon-14 dating murabhoritari muMiami, Florida pashure pokuferefeta kwakaitwa yunivhesiti. Yakakwanisa kurarama kwenguva yakareba kudaro nemhaka yenzira yokuparadzirwa kwayo nemiti, izvo zvinoreva kuti inokwanisa kuzvigadzira imene zvinobudirira. Nepo rutivi runooneka rwomuti wakareba mamita 13 ruri rutsva zvikuru, midzi yawo yave ichikura kwamakore anenge zviuru gumi.
Nyanzvi dzinoti Ashbrittle Yew yakanga yakura apo Stonehenge yakavakwa. Vanhu vomunzvimbomo vanotya kuti 'rakarwara zvikuru' nemhaka yemapazi ari kuoma uye mashizha ari kudonha. Asi chiremba wemiti anofunga kuti ingangova ichipfuura ne'nguva yakaipa'