List of famous trees
Here is a list of famous trees.
Individual trees
- The Angel Oak on Johns Island, near Charleston, South Carolina is estimated at 1400 years of age. It is threatened by nearby development.
- Assattha, a Bodhi tree or peepul tree under which Buddha is supposed to have been enlightened, at Bodh Gaya, India.
- Charter Oak in which the Connecticut charter was hidden from Andros.
- El arbol del Tule, the stoutest tree in the world, a Montezuma Bald Cypress in Santa Maria del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico.
- El Palo Alto, a Coast Redwood in Palo Alto, California.
- The Fortingall Yew, a Yew at Fortingall, Perthshire, Scotland; the oldest tree in Europe, thought to be about 4,000 years old.
- The General Grant tree, the official Christmas tree of the United States, a Giant Sequoia, in Kings Canyon National Park, California, USA.
- The General Sherman tree, the world's largest tree, a Giant Sequoia in Sequoia National Park, California, USA.
- Geneseo Big Tree at Geneseo, New York, a giant tree on the Genesee River, reported by some as an elm by others as an oak, 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.
- The Gernikako Arbola, an oak representing the Basque people, at Guernica, Basque Country, Spain.
- The Guilty Chinese Scholartree, located in Jingshan park, on which Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself shortly after escaping the Forbidden City in Beijing, China (deceased and later replaced by a replica).
- The Tree of Hippocrates, the Oriental plane under which Hippocrates is supposed to have taught, on the island of Kos, Greece.
- Jomon Sugi, a very large, old Sugi on Yakushima island, Japan.
- Kiidk'yaas, a rare golden spruce sacred to the Haida, on Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, Canada.
- Kongeegen (the King Oak), an ancient English oak in Jægerspris Nordskov, Sjælland, Denmark; estimated to be over 1200 years old, the oldest oak in the world.
- Liberty Tree at Boston, Massachusetts.
- The Lone Cypress, a dramatically situated Monterey Cypress on the 17 Mile Drive in Pebble Beach, California.
- The Lone Pine, a Turkish Pine used as a landmark in the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli in the First World War. Seeds collected from this tree are planted at many Australian war memorials.
- Major Oak, an ancient English oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England.
- Merlin's Oak at Carmarthen, Wales.
- Methuselah, the oldest known living organism (approximately 4,700 years), a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine in California.
- Royal Oak, the English oak in which King Charles II hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651, located in Boscobel, England (deceased and replaced by a replica).
- Shakespeare's mulberry tree at New Place, Stratford-on-Avon, cut down in the mid-18th century and fashioned into mementos.
- The Stratosphere Giant, tallest tree in the world, a Coast Redwood in California, USA.
- Tane Mahuta ('Lord of the Forest'), a giant Kauri (Agathis australis) in Northland, New Zealand.
- Te Matua Ngahere ('Father of the Forest'), another giant Kauri in Northland, New Zealand.
- Treaty Oak, in Austin, Texas.
- The over 450 years old giant banyan tree at Adyar in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters under which people listened to discourses by luminaries such as J. Krishnamurti, Annie Besant and Maria Montessori
Mythological and religious
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