On the provincial road Mithymnas – Petras, two kilometers from the settlement of Molyvos and specifically in the area of Agia Lemoni, on the cape south of Mithymna, there is a fossil horizon with rare fossils of coniferous trees.
Access to the fossil site is on foot from a path from the view point to the volcanic structure and the traditional settlement of Molyvos which leads to the beach of Agia Lemona.
The presence of the findings proves the great spread of the Petrified Forest outside the boundaries of the protected area. The most important find of this site is a giant fossilized trunk of an ancestral sequoia tree with a total length of about 18 meters. This impressive petrified trunk is protected with a special construction for its best protection and preservation. After the fossil site there is a small path that leads to the beach of the area with the intense volcanic element (a result of the intense volcanic activity from the Lepetymnos volcano) and the beautiful blue waters.
Sequoias, giant members of the cypress family, lived in the forests of Lesvos 20 million years ago. These are primitive species of the modern sequoia, which belongs to the species Sequoia sempervirens and is the largest tree on our planet, since some trees reach a height of about 120m
