List of trees
Not to be confused with List of trees and shrubs by taxonomic family.
The following is a list of notable trees from around the world. Trees listed here are regarded as important or specific by its historical, national, locational, natural or mythological context. The list includes actual trees located throughout the world, as well as trees from myths and trees from fiction.
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Real forests and individual trees
Africa
Living
Name | Species | Location | Age | Significance |
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The Cotton Tree | Kapok | Freetown, Sierra Leone | - | Historic symbol of Freetown. |
Wonderboom | Fig tree | Pretoria, South Africa | - | A sprawling fig tree in Pretoria, South Africa. |
Drago Milenario | Dracaena draco | Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife | - | Has been a local tourist attraction for more than a hundred years (mentioned by Alexander von Humboldt, for instance). |
Sunland Baobab | Adansonia digitata | Limpopo Province, South Africa | 1060 | A giant and ancient baobab tree, with a pub in the hollow. |
Historical
Name | Species | Location | Age | Significance |
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Arbre du Ténéré | Acacia | Sahara desert | A very isolated tree in the Sahara region, destroyed in 1973. |
Asia
Living
Name | Species | Location | Age (years) | Notes | ||
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Sisters Olive Trees of Noah | olive | Bcheale, Batroun District, Lebanon | Some claim these are the oldest living trees on earth. Legends refer to these trees as the source of the olive branch in the Genesis flood narrative.[1][2][3][4] | |||
Cedars of God | Lebanon cedar | Lebanon | - | A small forest (approximately 400,000 square feet (37,000 m2)) of about 400 Lebanon cedars at about 2,300 meters above sea level in the mountains of northern Lebanon. The cedars of Lebanon are mentioned in the Bible over 70 times and used as symbols of the Messiah, and they were prized by historical figures such as Herod, Alexander, and Julius Caesar. They also have a mention in the Epic of Gilgamesh | ||
The Great Banyan | Banyan | Botanical garden near Kolkata, India | - | A clonal colony of Indian Banyan with a crown circumference of over 330 meters. | ||
Balete tree | OISCA Farm in Canlaon City, Philippines | 1,300 | The over 1,300-year-old balete tree (related to banyan trees) located in is probably the oldest known tree in the country as estimated by botanists from Silliman University.[5] | |||
Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi | Sacred fig | Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka | 2300 | A sacred fig propagated from the Bodhi tree under which Lord Buddha became enlightened. It was planted in 288 BC.[6] | ||
Jōmon Sugi, | Sugi | Yakushima island, Japan | - | Ancient specimen | - | |
Great sugi of Kayano | Cryptomeria | Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan | 2,300 | |||
Ginkgo | Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea | 500 | A pair of ginkgo trees | |||
Big Banyan Tree | Banyan | Ramohalli, Bangalore, India | 400 | |||
Tree of Life | Mesquite | Bahrain | 400 | |||
Chankiri Tree (Killing tree) | Cambodian Killing Fields | - | A tree in the Killing Fields against which children and infants were slung to kill them. | |||
The Ying Ke Pine | Huangshan, China | - | Ying Ke, meaning "Welcoming-Guests" pine on Huangshan. | |||
Tembusu | Singapore Botanical Gardens, Singapore | 100 | The tree is featured on the reverse of a $5 Singapore note. | |||
Methusaleh | Judean date palm, | Israel | The formerly extinct tree was sprouted from a 2,000-year-old seed. | |||
Thimmamma Marrimanu | Banyan | 25 km from Kadiri, Anantapur district, Andhra Pradesh, India | According to Guinness Book of Records (1989), the world's biggest Banyan Tree, spreading over 11 acres (4 hectares).[7] |
Historical
Name | Species | Location | Age (years) | Notes |
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Alishan Sacred Tree | Cypress | Alishan train station, Taiwan | 3,000 | The tree fell on July 1, 1997. |
The Bodhi tree | Sacred fig | Bodh Gaya, India | The tree under which Buddha obtained enlightenment. The current tree at the site is a replacement. | |
Guilty Chinese Scholartree | Jingshan park | The tree on which the Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself shortly after escaping the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. The original tree died and was replaced by a replica. | ||
Changi Tree | Sindora wallichii? | Singapore | A historical visual landmark located in Singapore. Thought to be a specimen of Sindora wallichii, with an estimated height of 75 metres (246 ft), it was felled with explosive charges during the Second World War to prevent its use as a ranging aide by the approaching Japanese artillery. | |
Dry tree | Platanus | Norther Persia, possibly Tabriz or somewhere in Khorasan | According to a legend, the solitary Dry tree marked the spot of a great battle between Alexander the Great and Darius. Later recorded by Marco Polo. | |
The Lone Pine | Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey | A solitary tree which marked the site of the Battle of Lone Pine in 1915. | ||
The Kalayaan Tree | Siar tree, Peltophorum pterocarpum | Malolos Cathedral, Bulacan, Philippines | The Kalayaan Tree (Tree of Freedom), located near the front of the Minor Basilica of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception in the historic city of Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines. The siar tree was planted by Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo during a lull in the Malolos Convention. Under the tree is a monument symbolizing the meeting of Filipino revolutionaries represented by statues of Gregorio del Pilar and Gen. Isidoro Torres; Don Pablo Tecson, a legislator; Padre Mariano Sevilla, a nationalist leader of the church and Doña Basilia Tantoco, a woman freedom fighter.[8][9] | |
Kannimara Teak | Teak | Parambikulam Wildlife Sanctuary, Kerala, India | One of the oldest and largest living teak trees. It had a girth of 6.52 metres (21.4 ft) and a height of 48.25 metres (158.3 ft) when the measurement was taken in 2003. | |
Korean DMZ | A tree within the Korean DMZ was the focus of the Axe Murder Incident, in which two United States Army officers were killed by North Korean soldiers. The killings led to Operation Paul Bunyan, named for the legendary lumberjack. The tree was eventually cut down under the watch of over 800 soldiers. | |||
Ginkgo | Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū, Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan | 1,000 | The ancient tree was uprooted in a storm in 2010. |
Europe
Living
Name | Species | Location | Age (years) | Notes |
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Old Tjikko | Norway spruce | Sweden | 9,550 | The oldest known individual clonal tree in the world. |
Ballyconnell Yew | Yew | Grounds of Ballyconnell House, Annagh townland, County Cavan, Ireland | 2,000 | Ancient tree reckoned to be well over 2,000 years old with a massive girth. |
Scots pine | Urho Kekkonen National Park, Lapland (Finland), Finland | 770 | Considered one of the oldest trees in Finland. Probably the oldest Scots pine in the world. | |
Fortingall Yew | Yew | Churchyard of the village of Fortingall in Perthshire, Scotland | Various estimates have put its age at between 2,000 and 5,000 years. | |
Florencecourt Yew | Irish Yew | Florence Court estate near Enniskillen, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland | 276 | Replanted in 1740 as a sapling. Following commercial propagation of the tree after 1820, it is believed that the majority of Irish Yews outside Ireland are derived from this one tree. |
Caesarsboom (Caesar's Tree) | Yew | Lo, Belgium | Noted for the legend that Julius Caesar tethered his horse to it during his conquest of the region. | |
Yew | Estry, Normandy, France | > 1,600 | Considered one of the oldest trees in France. Its hollow trunk can contain 30 people. | |
Yews | La Haye-de-Routot, Normandy, France | ~ 1,500 | A chapel with a door was designed in one of them. | |
Forest swastika | Larch | Zernikow, Germany. | A patch of carefully arranged larch trees covering a 60-yard (55 m) square area of pine forest. | |
The Old Elm | Field Elm | Center of Sliven, Bulgaria | The Old Elm won the 2014 European Tree of the Year Award. The tree has sat in the center of Sliven for 1100 years, serving as a gathering point and a historical parker. It is also part of the city coat of arms.[10] | |
Granit Oak | Oak | Granit village near Stara Zagora, Bulgaria | 1,650 | One of the oldest trees in Europe, estimated to be about 1,650 years old. Its crown spread covers an area of 1,017 square metres, its girth is 7.45 m, and its height is 23.4 m. |
Bartek | Oak | 650-670 | A famous tree in Poland, visited by kings, said to be about 1,200 years old (actually 650–670 years according to recent studies). It is 30 m tall, 13.5 m in girth near the ground, with a crown spread of 40 m. | |
Gernikako Arbola | Oak | Guernica, Basque Country, Spain | An oak representing the Basque people | |
Queen Elizabeth Oak | Oak | Royal Palace of Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England | 800–1000 | Said to be the location where Elizabeth I of England was told she was queen in 1558. |
Kongeegen (the King Oak) | Pedunculate oak | Jægerspris Nordskov, Sjælland, Denmark; | 1,200 | The oldest tree in Denmark. |
Chêne chapelle | Oak | Allouville-Bellefosse, Normandy, France | 1,200 | An 800- to 1,200-year-old pedunculate oak, under which William the Conqueror is to have stopped, according to a local legend. There are two chapels inside. |
Poltava Oak | Oak | Poltava, Ukraine | 600 | An oak under which tsar Peter I rested at the Battle of Poltava in 1709. |
Yew | Stoke Gabriel churchyard Devon, England | Said to be the oldest tree in England. | ||
Major Oak | Pedunculate oak | Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England | 800 | The most famous and most visited tree of Great Britain. About 800 years old, with a girth at breast height of 10.5 m. |
Ivenack Oak | Pedunculate oak | Ivenack, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany | 800 | A huge and ancient Pedunculate oak thought to be about 800 years old, 35 m tall, 11 m in girth at breast height and 16.5 m near the ground. The largest oak in Germany and (in wood volume) probably in Europe. |
Baikushev's pine | Bosnian pine | Pirin mountains near Bansko, Bulgaria | 1,300 | An ancient tree estimated to be 1,300 years old. It is one of the oldest trees of Bulgaria and stands 24 m tall with a girth of 6.9 m at breast height. |
Stelmužė Oak | Pedunculate oak | Stelmužė, Zarasai district, Lithuania | 1,500 | Measures a girth at breast height of 9.58 m and 13 m near the ground. The oldest tree in Lithuania and the Baltic States. |
Chestnut Tree of One Hundred Horses | Chestnut | Sant'Alfio, the eastern slope of Mount Etna, Italy | Probably the world's oldest and largest chestnut. | |
Bialbero de Casorzo (Grana Double Tree) | Grana, Piemont, Italy | a tree which grows in a hollow tree near Grana, Piemont, Italy | ||
Le Gros chêne de Liernu (the big oak of Liernu) | Oak | 15 north from Namur, Belgium | 900 | Known as the oldest oak in Belgium. It is estimated at certainly 800 or 900 years old, maybe more than 1,000 years. |
The Oaks of Rogalin | Oak | Rogalin, Greater Poland | Thousand-year-old trees named after the three mythic founders of the Slavic nations. | |
The Olive tree of Vouves | Olive tree | Village of Ano Vouves, Kolymvari, Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. | 2,000 | It is confirmed to be at least 2000 years old based on tree ring analysis, but it is claimed to be between 3000–4000 years old. |
Mulberry of the Patriarchate of Peć | Mulberry | Peć, Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, Serbia. | 800 | One of the oldest verified living trees in Serbia, located in the courtyard of the church complex of the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate of Peć. It was brought from the Shām region by Archbishop Saint Sava II during his pilgrimage to the Holy Land and planted between 1263 and 1272. |
Old Oak | Oak | Exactly 100 km from Belgrade, Serbia, next to E-75 highway. | 600 | |
Koča's oak | near Jagodina, Serbia | Named after Koča Anđelković. | ||
Veliki Popovac oak | Village of Veliki Popovac, Serbia | |||
Plane tree at Miloš's Residence | Plane tree | Belgrade, Serbia | The oldest plane tree in Belgrade. | |
Flower Square oak | Belgrade, Serbia | Around two centuries old, the last remaining of the forest that covered the area. | ||
Brian Boru's Oak | Oak | Raheen Woods, County Clare, Ireland | A reputedly 1000-year-old oak tree planted by Brian Boru, Last King of Ireland. | |
Pi de les Tres Branques | Pine | Catalonia, Spain | Regarded as symbolising the unity of the Catalan countries | |
Midland Oak | Oak | Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England | Reputed to mark the centre of England | |
Najevnik Linden Tree | Small-leaved Lime | Najevnik Farm in Ludranski Vrh, Municipality of Črna na Koroškem, northern Slovenia | The tree with the largest girth in Slovenia (10.70 meters; its height is 24 m). Estimated to be 700 years old. The traditional meeting place of Slovene politicians and a cultural venue. |
Historical
Name | Species | Location | Age (years) | Notes |
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Anne Frank Tree | horse-chestnut tree | City center of Amsterdam, Netherlands | Featured in Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl. The tree was destroyed in a gale in the late summer of 2010. | |
Merlin's Oak | Carmarthen, Wales | |||
Glastonbury Thorn | hawthorn | Reputed to have been planted by Joseph of Arimathea. | ||
Thor's Oak | Oak | a tree sacred to the Germanic tribe of the Chatti, ancestors of the Hessians. | ||
Sacred tree at Uppsala | Temple at Uppsala, Sweden was a sacred tree | Venerated by Norse pagans, still extant in the second half of the 11th century. | ||
Royal Oak | Pedunculate oak | Boscobel, England | King Charles II hid in the tree to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The tree deceased and is replaced by a descendant. | |
Shakespeare's mulberry tree | mulberry | New Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, England | Cut down in the mid-18th century and fashioned into mementos. | |
Tree of Hippocrates | Oriental plane | Kos, Greece | The tree under which Hippocrates is supposed to have taught. | |
Red Forest | Pines | Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine | Formerly the Worm Wood Forest, refers to the trees growing in the 10 km2 surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and is one of several of the Chernobyl disaster effects on April 26, 1986. The name 'Red Forest' comes from the ginger brown colour of the pine trees after they died following the absorption of high levels of radiation. | |
Danger Tree | Beaumont-Hamel, France | Marks the area of highest casualties suffered by the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during their attack at Beaumont Hamel during the Battle of the Somme. The current 'tree' is a concrete replica, however growth around the replica may be from the same root system as the original tree. | ||
Takovo bush | Oak | Takovo, Serbia | Tree under which Miloš Obrenović started the Second Serbian Uprising. | |
Pine of Tsar Dušan | Bosnian pine | Uroševac, Serbia | 663 | Planted in 1336 by Tsar Dušan, destroyed by Albanian extremists in 1999. |
Poplar of Horror | Poplar | Donja Gradina, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Used for mass executions of inmates of the Jasenovac concentration camp. |
Petrified
Name | Species | Location | Age | Notes |
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Petrified Forest of Lesvos | Lesvos, Greece |
North America
Living
Name | Species | Location | Age | Notes |
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Angel Oak | Southern live oak | Johns Island, South Carolina, near Charleston, South Carolina, US | 1,400 | The tree and surrounding park have been owned by the neighboring city of Charleston since 1991. |
Árbol del Tule | Moctezuma Cypress | Santa María del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico | The stoutest tree in the world. | |
El Arbolito (The Little Tree) | Managua, Nicaragua | A traditional landmark used to give directions in Managua. | ||
Gloomy Night Tree (Árbol de la Noche Triste) | Tacuba, Mexico City, Mexico | An old tree where Hernán Cortés allegedly mourned after being expelled from Tenochtitlan before taking the city by force. | ||
The Banyan Tree | Banyan | Lahaina, Hawaii | ~150 | Planted in the 1860s, it covers an entire city block in the waterfront in Lahaina. |
The Big Oak | Oak | Thomasville, Georgia, US | One of the oldest Live Oak trees east of the Mississippi river. | |
The Big Tree - Goose Island | Rockport, Texas, US | Texas' largest tree, located in Goose Island State Park. | ||
Bogey's Tree | Pacific Palisades, California, US | A tree on the 12th hole at Riviera Country Club, named after Humphrey Bogart. | ||
Boyington Oak | Southern live oak | Mobile, Alabama, US | 180 | Reportedly grew from the grave of Charles Boyington in the potter's field just outside the walls of Church Street Graveyard. Boyington was tried and executed for the murder of his friend, Nathaniel Frost, on February 20, 1835. He stated that a tree would spring from his grave as proof of his innocence.[11][12] |
Buttonball Tree | American sycamore | Sunderland, MA, US | ||
Chandelier Tree | Coast Redwood | Leggett, California | ~2,000 | A Coast redwood with a passage for cars cut through. |
Circus Trees | California | A group of trees shaped into artistic forms by arborist Axel Erlandson | ||
Comfort Maple | Sugar maple | Pelham, Ontario, Canada | 500 | A 24.5-metre (80 ft) tall, approximately 500-year-old Sugar maple. |
Creek Council Oak Tree | White oak | Tulsa, Oklahoma, US | A large oak tree marking the founding of Tulsa by the Lochapoka Clan of the Creek Nation in 1836. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places. | |
Duffie Oak | Mobile, Alabama, US | 300 | It is estimated to be at least 300 years old and has a circumference of 30 feet 11 inches (9.42 m), a height of 48 feet (15 m) and a spread of 126 feet (38 m). Scholars consider it to be the oldest living landmark in the city.[13][14] | |
Emancipation Oak | Hampton, Virginia, US | |||
Endicott Pear Tree | European Pear | Danvers, Massachusetts, US | about 375 | Planted by Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Endecott in the 1630s or 1640s, this tree is believed to be the oldest cultivated fruit tree in North America. |
General Grant tree | Giant Sequoia | Kings Canyon National Park, California, US | The "Nation's Christmas Tree" of the United States, | |
General Sherman tree | Giant Sequoia | Sequoia National Park, California, US | 2300-2700 | The world's largest Giant Sequoia. |
Grizzly Giant | Giant Sequoia | Yosemite National Park, California, US | One of the oldest and largest Giant Sequoias in Yosemite National Park | |
Hangman's Elm | English Elm | Manhattan, New York City, NY, US | ~310 | The oldest known tree in Manhattan. |
Hare Krishna Tree | American Elm | Manhattan's East Village, New York City, NY, US | The founding site of the Hare Krishna movement in the United States. | |
Hyperion | Coast Redwood | California, US | At 115.5 m tall the tallest tree in the world, found in 2006. | |
Stratosphere Giant | Coast Redwood | California, US | 112.8 m tall, the tallest known tree in the world until displaced by Hyperion. | |
Iluvatar | Coast Redwood | Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, near Orick, California, US | An arborist resting next to the coast redwood Iluvatar in the spring of 2008. The third largest known coast redwood. It is located in Atlas Grove (a grove of redwood trees) in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. | |
Le Chêne à Papineau | Northern Red Oak | Montebello, Quebec, Canada | Estimated 300 years old and 20 m tall, it is one of the oldest known trees in Quebec. | |
Linden Oak | North Bethesda, Maryland, US | |||
Lone Cypress | Monterey Cypress | 17 Mile Drive, Pebble Beach, California, US | ~250 | A dramatically situated Monterey Cypress |
Lost Monarch | Coast Redwood | Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, California, US | Largest known Coast Redwood. | |
Luna | Redwood | Headwaters Forest in Humboldt County, California | 600-1000 | The tree lives in a grove of old growth forest. Tree sitter Julia Butterfly Hill lived here for 738 days. |
Brooklyn Magnolia | Magnolia grandiflora | New York City, New York, US | An unusually large magnolia grandiflora for the latitude. A New York City designated landmark. | |
Marlboro Tree | Black willow | Marlboro Township, New Jersey, US | The tree is about 152 years old and measures 76 feet (23 m) in height and 19 ft 8 in (5.99 m) in circumference. Five grown people must hold hands to fully encircle the tree. | |
Methuselah | Great Basin Bristlecone Pine | California, US | 4,700 | A candidate for the oldest known living organism (approximately 4,700 years) |
Moon trees | Grown from seeds taken into orbit around the moon | |||
El Palo Alto | Coast Redwood | Palo Alto, California, US | ||
Pando (Latin for "I spread") | Quaking Aspen | Utah, US | A Quaking Aspen colony in Utah, is the oldest known clonal colony at possibly 80,000 years, and the heaviest at 6,000 tonnes. | |
Perryville Tree engravings | Perryville, Maryland, US | Trees carved by mentally ill veterans. | ||
Pinchot Sycamore | American sycamore | Simsbury, Connecticut, US | 200-300+ | The largest tree in Connecticut, an ancient sycamore named for Gifford Pinchot. |
Queens Giant | Tulip-tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) | Northeast Queens, New York| | 350-450 | The tree measures 40 metres (130 ft) tall and is 350–450 years old. It is the oldest living organism in the New York metropolitan area. |
Santa Barbara's Moreton Bay Fig Tree | Santa Barbara, California, US | ~138 | ||
Seven Sisters Oak | Southern live oak | Lewisberg, Louisiana, US | 1,500 | Believed to be nearly 1,500 years old. The tree has a girth of over 38 feet (12 m) and is the president of the Live Oak Society. |
Survivor Tree | American Elm | Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US | Incorporated into the Oklahoma City National Memorial. Located across the street from the Murrah Federal Office Building, it survived the terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. | |
Survivor Tree | Callery Pear | New York, New York, US | Survived the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001 and was incorporated into the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. | |
Treaty Oak | Southern live oak | Jacksonville, Florida, US | The Treaty Oak is an octopus-like Southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) in Jacksonville, Florida. It is estimated to be 250 years old and is located in Treaty Oak Park in the Southbank area of Downtown Jacksonville. | |
The Tree That Owns Itself | White Oak | Athens, Georgia, US | "Son of..." planted Dec, 4, 1946 | According to local folklore, owns itself and all land within 2.5 m (8 ft) of its base. |
Washington Oak | White oak | Princeton, New Jersey, US | Overlooks the Princeton Battlefield State Park; located where British and American forces first saw each other, igniting the Battle of Princeton in 1777. | |
Washington tree | Giant Sequoia | California, US | ||
Witch Tree | Grand Portage, Minnesota, US | Also called Manido Giizhigance, or Little Cedar Spirit Tree by the Ojibwe Indian tribe, is a cedar growing on the rocky shoreline of Lake Superior. It is at least 300 years old, possibly twice that, revered by the local Ojibwe Indian tribe, and mentioned by French explorers in 1731. | ||
Salem Oak | White oak | Salem friends burial grounds in Salem, New Jersey, US | 500-600 | 22 ft (6.7 m) circumference. Estimated between 500 and 600 years old. This tree did not sustain any damage from the Hurricane Sandy in October 2012. |
Pechanga Great Oak | Coast live oak | Temecula, California, US | 1500-2000 | Oldest oak tree in the United States, possibly in the world. |
Friendship Oak | Southern live oak | Long Beach, Mississippi, US | 500 | |
Black walnut | Longview, Washington, US | 161 | Marks the location of the Monticello Convention, establishing the Washington Territory in 1852.[15] |
Historical
Name | Species | Location | Age | Notes | |
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The Royal Oak | Oak | Royal Oak, Michigan, USA | In 1819, Michigan Governor Lewis Cass and several companions set out on an exploration of Michigan territory to disprove land surveyors' claims that the territory was swampy and uninhabitable. The beginning of their journey seemed to support those claims until they reached a desirable area of higher ground near the intersections of Main, Rochester and Crooks Roads. Here they encountered a stately oak tree with a trunk considerably wider than most other oaks. Its large branches reminded Cass of the legend of the royal oak tree, under which King Charles II of England took sanctuary from enemy forces in 1660. Cass and his companions christened the tree the "Royal Oak." | ||
Black Hawk Tree | Cottonwood | Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, USA | Debunked local lore held that Sauk Chief Black Hawk once hid amongst its branches to escape his pursuers. The tree was destroyed by a storm during the 1920s. | ||
Burmis tree | Limber pine | Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada | Declared dead in 1979 but still standing on the north side of the Crowsnest Highway. | ||
Buttonwood | Wall Street, New York City, NY, USA | The tree which once stood at the foot of Wall Street in New York City. It was under this tree that stock traders once gathered and formed the Buttonwood Agreement which later evolved into the New York Stock Exchange. | |||
Charter Oak | Connecticut, USA | This tree was used to hide the Connecticut colonial constitution from English governor-general Sir Edmund Andros. | |||
Eisenhower Tree | Augusta, Georgia, US | 100-125 | Loblolly pine tree on the Augusta National Golf Club course, said to be "among the most famous landmarks in golf", and particularly frustrating to Dwight D. Eisenhower. | ||
Encino Oak Tree | Coast Live Oak | Los Angeles, California, USA | A 1,000-year-old tree in the Encino section of Los Angeles. It was also known as the Lang Oak. Once described as "the oldest known tree in the city of Los Angeles," it fell on February 7, 1998, due to strong winds from an El Niño storm. | ||
Geneseo Big Tree | Geneseo, New York, USA | A giant tree on the Genesee River, reported by some as an elm, by others as an oak. It was the site of the 1797 Treaty of Big Tree between Robert Morris and the Seneca tribe to sell most of western New York, also known as The Holland Purchase. It was washed away in a flood in the mid 19th century. | |||
Hooker Oak | Chico, California, USA | ||||
Inspiration Oak | Live Oak | Magnolia Springs, Alabama, USA | Having a spread of 192 feet, this oak, a landmark on U.S. Highway 98, was girdled with a chainsaw in October 1990 during an eminent domain dispute with Baldwin County officials. Grafting efforts to save the tree failed, and it died in 1993. Estimated by locals to be around 500 years old, it was discovered to be only 90 years old in a ring count. | ||
"The Joshua Tree" tree | Yucca brevifolia | Mojave Desert, USA | A lone-standing Joshua tree featured in the album art of The Joshua Tree by U2. The tree fell around 2000. A plaque now stands where the tree was, as the site is a popular site for fans to pay tribute to the band. | ||
Kiidk'yaas (The Golden Spruce) | Sitka Spruce | Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada | A rare golden Sitka Spruce sacred to the Haida, on Haida Gwaii. The tree was illegally felled in 1997. | ||
Liberty Tree | Boston, Massachusetts, USA | ||||
Mercer Oak | White oak | Princeton, New Jersey, USA | The tree on which a wounded General Hugh Mercer rested during the American Revolutionary War's Battle of Princeton. Despite its fall in early 2000, it continues to be Princeton's emblem. | ||
Mingo Oak | White oak | Mingo County, West Virginia, USA | Formerly the oldest and largest white oak in the United States until its felling on September 23, 1938. | ||
National Christmas Tree | Blue spruce | President's Park in Washington, D.C., USA | It was 9 meters (30 ft) tall when it was transplanted from York, Pennsylvania, in 1978. It was felled by a windstorm on February 19, 2011. | ||
Prometheus | Great Basin Bristlecone Pine | 5,000 | Was the oldest living non-clonal organism. The age was estimated at 5,000 years. The tree was cut down on August 6, 1964, by a graduate student and U.S. Forest Service personnel for research purposes, though at the time they did not know of its world-record age. | ||
Senator | Pond cypress | Big Tree Park, Longwood, Florida, USA | Was the oldest Pond Cypress tree in the world. It was 35 meters (115 ft) tall with a trunk diameter of 344 cm and an estimated stem volume of 119.4 m3. It was estimated to be 3,500 years old at the time of its demise in early 2012. | ||
Treaty of Greenville Tree | Greenville, Ohio, USA | ||||
Mother of the Forest | Giant sequoia | a 321-foot (98 m) giant sequoia | |||
The Washington Oak | Hampton Plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, USA | When George Washington visited Charleston in 1791, Eliza Lucas Pinckney complained about a live oak that blocked the view. Washington remarked that he liked the tree, so it was saved and has since been known as the Washington Oak. | |||
Wawona Tree | Giant sequoia | Giant sequoia with a tunnel cut through it. Fell in 1969. | |||
Webster Sycamore | American sycamore | Near Webster Springs in Webster County, West Virginia | approx. 500 | The largest American sycamore in the U.S. state of West Virginia until its felling in 2010. | |
Wethersfield Elm | |||||
Wye Oak | White oak | Maryland, USA | Was the honorary state tree of Maryland, and the largest white oak tree in the United States. |
Petrified
Name | Species | Location | Age | Notes |
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Callixylon tree | Ada, Oklahoma, USA | 250,000,000 | Discovered on a farm it was the largest example of a petrified tree when it was discovered in 1913. It is estimated to be about 250,000,000 years old. After a 23-year dispute with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., the tree's fragments were displayed on the East Central Oklahoma State University in March, 1936.[16] | |
Ginkgo Petrified Forest | Washington, USA | |||
Petrified Forest | Sonoma County, California, USA | On the List of California Historical Landmarks. | ||
Petrified Forest National Park | Arizona, USA | |||
Mississippi Petrified Forest |
Other
- Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, a Christmas tree on display every December in Rockefeller Center, New York City.
- The Tree of Life, a fourteen-story artificial tree in Disney's Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida.
Central America
Living
- Guanacaste tree, focal point of Guanacaste National Park, Belize.
South America
Living
- Cashew of Pirangi (in portuguese language, Cajueiro de Pirangi) tree, major tourist attraction in Natal, Brazil. Believed to be the biggest cashew in the world.
Oceania
Living
Name | Species | Location | Age | Notes |
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Dave Evans Bicentennial Tree | Karri | near Pemberton, Western Australia | forest fire lookout tree with accessible platform, | |
Diamond Tree | Karri | 10 km from Manjimup, Western Australia | Forest fire lookout tree with accessible wooden platform (52 m high). | |
Dig Tree | Cooper Creek, Queensland, Australia | Used as a marker by members of the ill-fated Burke and Wills expedition. | ||
El Grande | At one time, the world's largest flowering plant. | |||
Lone Gum | Coolabah | Simpson Desert, South Australia, Australia | A solitary Coolabah, far from the nearest watercourse, normally grows in heavy clay soils. There is no other tree of its kind in the region and how it came to be there remains a mystery.[17] | |
Gloucester Tree | Karri | Gloucester National Park Pemberton, Western Australia | Western Australia's most famous Karri tree, with accessible aluminium platform, in (61 m high). | |
Old Jarrah Tree | Perth, Western Australia | |||
King Jarrah | Jarrah | Manjimup, Western Australia | Giant Jarrah saved by the National Trust upon overhearing two foresters bragging at the pub about a mighty tree they were going to chop down the next morning. | |
Curtain Fig Tree | Strangler Fig | Near Cairns, Australia. | One of the largest trees in North Queensland. The roots dangle 15 metres to the ground to create a curtain-like effect. | |
Cathedral Fig Tree[18][19] | Strangler fig | Yungaburra, Tablelands Area, Queensland, Australia | "A gigantic 500 year old strangler tree", like the Curtain Fig Tree. Another massive Ficus virens in the Danbulla Forest. | |
Tane Mahuta ('Lord of the Forest') | Kauri | Northland Region, New Zealand | It is estimated to be between 1,250 and 2,500 years old. | |
Te Matua Ngahere ('Father of the Forest') | Kauri | Northland Region, New Zealand. | ||
Banyan Tree Park | Banyan | Lāhainā, Hawai'i, USA | 142 | The tree was imported from India and was 2.5 m (8 ft) tall when it was planted on April 24, 1873 by Sheriff William Owen Smith to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Christian missionary work. The tree grew to 18 m (60 ft) high with 12 major trunks. |
Boab Prison Tree, Derby | Boab tree | South of Derby, Western Australia | Was used as a prison for Indigenous Australian prisoners on their way to Derby for sentencing. | |
Boab Prison Tree, Wyndham | Boab tree | Wyndham, Western Australia | Also used as a prison. | |
Centurion | Eucalyptus regnans | Tasmania, Australia | At 99.6 metres, it is tallest known eucalypt and the tallest known angiosperm in the world, second tallest tree species in the world. | |
The Grandis | Eucalyptus Grandis (Flooded Gum) | Near Bulahdelah, New South Wales, Australia | At 76.2 metres tall though some sources claim that its past height was 84 metres tall. The Grandis is widely regarded as the tallest tree in New South Wales, and one of the oldest, being over 400 years old. |
Historical
- The Tree of Knowledge at Barcaldine, Queensland under which the Australian Labor Party was traditionally founded. In an act of vandalism, the tree was poisoned and was eventually declared dead in October 2006.
- The pine of One Tree Hill, a radiata pine which stood alone until 2000 atop One Tree Hill (Maunga-Kiekie), an extinct volcanic cone in Auckland city, New Zealand.
- Old Gum Tree, Glenelg, South Australia.
- The Explorers Tree, marked by the explorers who crossed the Blue Mountains (New South Wales) in 1813.
Mythological and religious
- Bodhi Tree, under which Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher and founder of Buddhism later known as Gautama Buddha, achieved enlightenment, or Bodhi.
- World Tree
- Égig érő fa, the "Tree Reaching into the Sky" of Hungarian folk art and a folk tale type
- Irminsul
- Jievaras, the World tree in Lithuanian mythology.
- Yggdrasil, the World Tree in the Old Norse religion.
- Cutting of the elm, a legendary event concerning a tree at Gisors.
- Cypress of Kashmar, planted by Zoroaster and felled by Caliph Al Mutawakkil.
- Man-eating tree
- Thor's Oak, a sacred tree to the ancient Germanic tribe of the Chatti.
- Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, from Christianity and Judaism.
- Tree of Life, from Christianity and Judaism.
- The Lote Tree
- The Zaqqum Tree
Fictional
- The Kite-Eating Tree from Peanuts.
- The Menoa Tree from the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini.
- Telperion and Laurelin, the Two Trees of Valinor, from The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien.
- The White Tree of Gondor, Fangorn forest and the Ents tree herders, from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
- The Whomping Willow standing in the grounds of Hogwarts, from Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling.
- The Giving Tree from the Shel Silverstein book of the same name
See also
- List of superlative trees
- List of oldest trees
- List of long-living organisms
- Notable elm trees
- List of famous Eucalypt trees
- List of Great British Trees
- Gerichtslinde
- List of tree genera
- Bonsai
References
- ↑ Certificate issued by the Lebanese government and the United Nations FAO
- ↑ 'Epic Olive Trees' by the Olive Oil Times, Article, 2012
- ↑ 'Bechealeh’s ancient trees still producing high-end olive oil' by The Daily Star Article, 2012
- ↑ 'Ancient olive branches' by The TIMES of London Article, 2006
- ↑ "The Oldest Tree - Canlaon - Negros Oriental - Philippines". Dumaguete Info. Retrieved on 2011-04-28.
- ↑ Shanika Sriyananda (2011-07-03). "Caring for the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi ". Retrieved 2012-01-30.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/20120707055310/http://frontline.in:80/fl2911/stories/20120615291108300.htm. Archived from the original on July 7, 2012. Missing or empty
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(help) - ↑ "Beneath the Shade of the Kalayaan Tree". Traveler on Foot. Retrieved on 2011-04-27.
- ↑ "Basilica Minore de Immaculada Concepcion". Experince Bulacan. Retrieved on 2011-04-28.
- ↑ http://www.treeoftheyear.org/Minule-rocniky/2014/Stary-jilm.aspx
- ↑ Windham, Kathryn Tucker (1982). Jeffrey's Latest 13: More Alabama Ghosts. Huntsville, Alabama: Strode Publishers. pp. 21–32. ISBN 0-8173-0380-4.
- ↑ Borland, Timothy (June 27, 2011). "Mobile Tree Hugger, Part II: The Legend Of The Charles Boyington Oak". Mobile Bay Magazine. Retrieved November 9, 2012.
- ↑ "Alabama’s Famous & Historic Tree Program" (PDF). Alabama Forestry Commission. State of Alabama. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
- ↑ "Live Oak Project, Mobile, AL". Native Tree Society. Eastern Native Tree Society. Retrieved November 13, 2012.
- ↑ "'It's had a hard life' -- Longview historic tree in dire straights from age, decay, railroad". Associated Press. November 19, 2009. Retrieved 16 July 2013.
- ↑ Haunted Oklahoma: PONTOTOC COUNTY
- ↑ Attractions - Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR)
- ↑ "Cathedral Fig Tree". Queensland.
- ↑ "About Danbulla". Queensland.
External links
- Map of this list (in progress)
- World’s first tree reconstructed 385 million-year-old tree
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