Standing alone on its hill in the middle of the desert, the ‘Tree of Life’ is dear to the hearts of the Bahrainis, who have made it the symbol of their country. Countless legends abound about it. The tree was planted around 1580 and belongs to the prosopis cineraria species. Although the mystery is gradually being cleared up, the survival of this ten-metre-high tree in the middle of the desert is a surprising discovery.