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.
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
When to go
- Climate
- Across Ankara as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 0.4 °C in January to 23.6 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in May (52 mm) and lightest in August (13 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
