Famous Trees?? Where?

Question

There is an amazing tree atop Pikes Peak in Colorado that is thousands of years old and grows above the tree line. There are no other trees like it anywhere near it. I also love the Bodhi tree (India), the treaty Oak (Austin, TX) and the Survivor tree in Oklahoma City. I'm intrigued. What cool trees do you know about?

Answer 1

In Taiwan, there's this awesome park full of amazing trees.  Some are just unbelievably tall or old.  One that stood out was a three generation tree.  This tree first grew a loooong time ago.  It died, and it's "child" sprouted right on it!  Even more amazing, when the second tree died, the "grandchild" of the first tree grew on the second one!

I found three generations on one tree really awesome.

Answer 2

http://www.canadventure.ca/gallery/enlar...

another picture of Cathedral Grove trees.

http://www.cbc.ca/sevenwonders/images/pi...

http://photos.igougo.com/pictures-photos...

Red Creek Fir.

http://www.portrenfrew.com/redfir.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Range

Baobobs

http://wonder-full-world.blogspot.com/20...

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:...

I almost forgot,

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:...

Answer 3

The Boogerman Pine is the worlds oldest Eastern White Pine. It is found growing in the Applanchian Mountain Smokey national park.

Answer 4

The Avenue of the Giants in Sequoia CA. Most Awsome Ever!

Answer 5

Australia's Biggest, Tallest and Oldest Trees

Huon Pine in Tasmania is the oldest clonal tree

The Blue Gum tree Eucalyptus globulus is one of the tallest of the genus-- it can generally reach 375 feet in height but the record is held by a Eucalyptus regnans at 316.6 feet.

http://isaac.org.au/info/bigtrees.htm

http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/virtualexhibit...

Tane Mahuta (Agathis australis) of New Zealand is their largest reported kauri tree.

http://ten-thousand-trees.blogspot.com/2...

The widest tree ever recorded was a European Chestnut on Mt. Etna, Sicily with a girth measured at 190 feet circumference. The trunk has since split.

http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingu...

The current champion is "Santa Maria Arbor del Tule" (The Tule Tree), a Montezuma Cypress located Oaxaca, Mexico. It measures at 164 feet in circumference and has been dated at 2000 years old.

United States has "General Sherman" (102.6 ft circumference), a giant sequoia in California.

England’s largest Oak (Quercus Robor) is in Sherwood forest. The Major Oak measures 33 feet (10.07 m) in diameter. This is probably about 100 feet in circumference. The Newlands Oak was 45 feet (13.72 metres) diameter when it fell. This would have been about 140 feet in circumference.

National Register of Big Trees in USA

http://www.americanforests.org/resources...

World record listings

http://www.nativetreesociety.org/measure...

http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0601.htm

http://www.treesaregood.com/funfacts/Rec...