This, according to the Mexicans and the guide book, is the largest living thing in the world. It´s some sort of cypress tree growing in a church yard in El Tule, a town just outside Oaxaca, Mexico. It´s more impressive for its vast girth than its great height, though it does over-shadow the rather modest church next to it and make Joanne (centre, arms wide) look like the five-foot-two-inch munchkin she is.