The copy which is adjacent to the Health Center Barrio de la Concepción, has been included in the draft of the Autonomous Community for the conservation of monumental trees in the region, including pruning jobs and improving the environment in which it has collaborated City Hall
The Autonomous Community with the assistance of the City of Cartagena, has performed to improve the environment and one of the oldest cypress in the Region of Murcia, located in the Barrio de la Concepción.
This project is included in the draft Monumental Woodland Conservation Region of Murcia, funded by La Caixa, and has been conducted on this issue of Tetraclinis articulata or Sabina Cartagena, which can be considered
father of many of the stocking made ​​in the region since the mid-twentieth century and the spread of this species by the public gardens of the town.
The tree is in part what was Vivero Municipal, land whose use is given today to the naturalist association ANSE, and the work performed consisted in eliminating the low wall of concrete block is filled with soil slope is has provided a layer of sand topdressing to improve soil, has built a border with wood, have been pruned dead branches and carried out the installation of dynamic wired and static, finishing with placing information signs and interpretive .
With a height of 17 meters and a half, the Cypress del Barrio de la Concepción has a trunk circumference of about two meters, and its age is between 70 and 90 years, as it is supposed to be planted at the beginning of the century Last.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena