List of famous trees
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The following is a partial list of famous trees. The list includes individual trees located throughout the world, as well as trees from myths and trees from fiction.
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Real individual trees
Africa
- Arbre du Ténéré, a very isolated tree in the Sahara region.
Asia
- The Bodhi tree, a Sacred Fig tree under which Buddha is supposed to have been enlightened, at Bodh Gaya, India.
- The Sri Maha Bodhi tree, propagated from the Bodhi tree, planted in 288 BC at Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka.
- 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.
- 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).
- Jomon Sugi, a very large, old Sugi on Yakushima island, Japan.
Europe
- Bartek, an oak grows in Zagnansk in Swietokrzyskie Mountains; the most famous tree in Poland, about 1200 years old, 30 m tall, measures 13.5 m in girth near the ground and its crown spread is about 40 m.
- Fortingall Yew, a yew at Perth and Kinross, Perthshire, Scotland; the oldest tree in Europe, thought to be about 4,000 years old.
- Gernikako Arbola, an oak representing the Basque people, at Guernica, Basque Country, Spain.
- Glastonbury Thorn, a hawthorn reputed to have been planted by Joseph of Arimathea.
- Irminsul, a tree venerated by the Saxons. It was located near Eresburg castle, Paderborn, and was destroyed by Charlemagne in 772.
- Kongeegen (the King Oak), an ancient Pedunculate oak in Jægerspris Nordskov, Sjælland, Denmark; estimated to be over 1200 years old, one of the oldest oaks in the world.
- 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 Pedunculate oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England.
- Merlin's Oak at Carmarthen, Wales.
- Royal Oak, the Pedunculate 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.
- Tree of Hippocrates, the Oriental plane under which Hippocrates is supposed to have taught, on the island of Kos, Greece.
North America
- Angel Oak, a Southern live oak on Johns Island, near Charleston, South Carolina is estimated at 1400 years of age. It is threatened by nearby development.
- Charter Oak in which the Connecticut charter was hidden from Andros.
- El Árbol del Tule, the stoutest tree in the world, a Montezuma Cypress in Santa María del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico.
- El Palo Alto, a Coast Redwood in Palo Alto, California.
- The General Grant tree, the official Christmas tree of the United States, a Giant Sequoia, in Kings Canyon National Park, California.
- General Sherman tree, the world's largest living thing, a Giant Sequoia in Sequoia National Park, California.
- 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. 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.
- Kiidk'yaas, a rare golden Sitka Spruce sacred to the Haida, on Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, Canada.
- Liberty Tree at Boston, Massachusetts.
- Lone Cypress, a dramatically situated Monterey Cypress on the 17 Mile Drive in Pebble Beach, California.
- Mercer Oak, the white oak on which a wounded General Hugh Mercer rested during the Revolutionary War's Battle of Princeton. Despite its fall in early 2000, it continues to be Princeton Township, New Jersey's emblem.
- Methuselah, the oldest known living organism (approximately 4,700 years), a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine in California.
- The Queens Giant, a Tulip-tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) in northeast Queens, New York that is 40 m (134 feet) tall and 350-450 years old. It is the oldest living thing in the New York metropolitan area.
- Stratosphere Giant, tallest tree in the world, a Coast Redwood in California.
- Treaty Oak, in Austin, Texas.
- Washington tree in California
Oceania
- Gloucester Tree, Western Australia's most famous Karri tree, in Gloucester National Park, Australia.
- Tane Mahuta ('Lord of the Forest'), a giant Kauri in Northland Region, New Zealand.
- Te Matua Ngahere ('Father of the Forest'), another giant Kauri in Northland Region, New Zealand.
Mythological and religious
- Jievaras The World tree in Lithuanian mythology.
- Thor's Oak
- Tree of Jesse, from which the Cross was made, in medieval Christian legend.
- Tree of Knowledge, from Christianity and Judaism.
- Tree of Life, from Christianity and Judaism.
- Yggdrasil, The World Tree in the Old Norse religion.
- World Tree, a gigantic oak, that holds the whole Universe in Slavic mythology.
Fictional
- Avendesora and Avendoraldera from Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time.
- The Giving Tree, in the book of that title by Shel Silverstein.
- Great Deku Tree from the video game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
- The One Tree from Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
- Telperion and Laurelin, the Two Trees of Valinor, from The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien.
- Treebeard from the movie The Lord of the Rings directed by Peter Jackson by J. R. R. Tolkien.
- White Tree of Gondor from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.
- A Tree Grows In Brooklyn American novel by Betty Smith
See also
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