Guide
Kabaardıç is a juniper at the Bayramyeri locality in the Meyilhacılar quarter of Nallıhan district, Ankara province, declared a natural monument on 23 October 2000. Unlike several of the country's other monument trees it is set up to be visited: the ground around it has been landscaped and an information board put up, and the directorate presents it as an example of a cultural outing as much as a scientific one.
The tree is estimated at 750 years old. It stands 20 metres tall, with a girth of nine metres and a trunk 2.80 metres across, and the trunk is forked. The directorate describes its growth as extreme for the typical inner Anatolian climate of the region. The page's wildlife section is left blank.
Reaching it needs a car. From the Nallıhan-Eskişehir Sarıcakaya asphalt road, turn onto the Meyilhacılar quarter road after the 18th kilometre and follow it for three kilometres, then turn onto the Aliefe quarter road for 700 metres; from there, signs on the unsurfaced road lead to the site.
- Designated
- 23.10.2000
