“The dragon tree that collapsed months ago in the Nazaret de Güímar School will not be able to be transplanted to another place, due to biological problems and the damage caused by its collapse in the month of July”, has indicated the insular counselor of Management of the Natural Environment and Security , Isabel García, who had agreed with the mayor of Güímar, Gustavo Pérez, the collaboration of the Cabildo in the transfer and transplantation of the more than 130-year-old specimen. “Thus we have made the biodiversity area of the island institution available to the City Council, although we have not been able to do anything to recover it.”
The specimen of Dracaena draco from the Nazaret school, about 10 meters high and a crown width of 11.50 meters and more than 15 tons in weight, collapsed last July due to different causes, among others the presence of fungi in its bearing. “In a first assessment, the possibility of transplanting the tree to a nearby place was considered, so as not to lose it, and try to recover it, however the reports indicate that this transplant will not be successful mainly due to the little development of its roots”, said the Mayor
However, the specialists consulted, among them the president of the CIT of the city Luís Marrero, the architect Alberto Luengo, as well as several experts in botany, biology and replanting, in permanent coordination with the direction of the College of Nazaret have concluded that due ” the state of health added to the breaking of more than half of the branches, has made it impossible for it to be transplanted ”. “It is not the same to transplant a dragon tree with its root ball in good physiological condition, than to replant a fallen dragon tree with serious pathologies and in a regrettable state of conservation”, reads the report that also adds that “Even the possible rooting of its arms it is also very limited, since the branches lack aerial roots ”.
