How a mysterious tree has been surviving in the Arabian desert for 400 years (5 photos)

Some consider it a remnant of the Garden of Eden and hold religious ceremonies next to it.





The average temperature in the Arabian Desert is 41 degrees Celsius. Often reaches up to 50 degrees. Kilometers of scorched sand, and in the midst of this barren land is a green tree with a spreading crown.



It is almost 10 meters high and grows on a hill, which is 2 kilometers from the highest point in Bahrain

This is a local landmark, every year to the tree hundreds of tourists come. Some of them seriously consider him the last a plant left over from the Garden of Eden.





Pointer to the tree of life for tourists

Researchers have established the age of the tree - 400 years. But why it is one in the whole desert, here already scientists cannot come to an agreement.

On the one hand, there is a lot of water in the root system of a tree, but there are no sources of moisture nearby. Also carried out underground scan - and also found no liquid. On the other hand, this plant "Mesquite" and can get moisture from the air. That's just no moisture in the desert does not smell.



It is called the loneliest tree in the world

Therefore, scientists can only assume that the tree a huge root system that descends underground for almost a hundred meters and collects grains of moisture from there. But why then in the desert there are no other such trees - a mystery.



Tourists specially come to the desert to touch the mysterious tree

But this is all theory. And the tree of life, contrary to all laws nature, stubbornly stands in the middle of the hot desert and is not going to dry out.