The Wallace Oak and Yew of Elderslie

The legend attaches to a national hero and to a specific tree, which is the kind of story that keeps being moved from one tree to the next as the old one dies. Here the shift from oak to yew is recorded in the sources, and the yew's age is disputed by specialists.

Specialists quoted in the sources suggest that an earlier, much older yew may have stood here before the present one.