Drago Milenario
In Parque del Drago in Icod de los Vinos, the Drago Milenario—also known as the dragon tree, *Dracaena draco*—is famous for being the oldest and largest living specimen of its kind on Tenerife. Estimates place it around a thousand years old, though the exact age remains disputed. What makes this tree feel almost engineered by time is its scale: it reaches roughly 20 to 21 metres in height, with a trunk circumference around 20 metres and more than 300 main branches. Inside the trunk there’s a striking cavity nearly 6 metres high, made accessible by a door, and fitted with a fan for ventilation. When it flowered in 1995, it carried about 1,800 flowering branches, and during fruiting its mass reportedly increased by about 3.5 tonnes. Official recognition arrived in 1917, when it was declared a national monument—one reason it became a lasting Tenerife symbol, even appearing on the 1,000 peseta note.
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