Crowds of unruly people can be stressful in any situation, but it has been particularly rough for the Fortingall Yew which is considered the oldest living tree in the U.K. and potentially in Europe.

Can the Fortingall Yew have it all?You'd think after thousands of years on earth, the Fortingall Yew wouldn't be up for a major life change. Well, you're wrong.

The oldest tree in Britain is undergoing a sex change after 5,000 years, according to botanists. Perthshire’s Fortingall Yew, estimated to be around 5,000 years old making it older than ...

U.K.’s Oldest Tree Is Being Besieged by Tourists Visitors to the Fortingall Yew are snapping twigs, stealing needles and tying beads and ribbons to branches, which experts believe may be ...

Britain's oldest tree could be dead in fifty years - because tourists keep ripping off its branches and keeping them as souvenirs, environmentalists have warned. The Fortingall Yew in Perthshire ...

SCOTLAND is packed with natural colour and variety, but one piece of Scottish foliage is unique to all the others - the Fortingall Yew, widely thought to be the oldest living thing in Europe.

A yew tree of that age -- dubbed the "Fortingall Yew" and one of the oldest trees in Europe -- has been identified as male for centuries, but now one of its limbs seems to have undergone a sex change.

The Fortingall Yew in Perthshire, which estimates suggest is between 3,000 and 5,000 years old, is regarded as a male tree because of the fact it produces pollen – unlike female yews, which ...

The Fortingall Yew, an ancient tree in Perthshire believed to be thousands of years old, has partially changed sex to female.

Fortingall Yew, an ancient Scottish tree that’s estimated to be 5,000 years old and among Europe’s oldest living organisms, is changing sexes from male to female, according to Botanist Max ...