The seven wonders of the tree world
Courtesy of the Mother Nature Network, this slideshow series identifies the most important, significant, amazing … trees in the world.
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This redwood tree is located in Sequoia National Park in California and is believed to be between 2,300 and 2,700 years old. It towers about 275 feet above the ground, is the largest non-clonal tree in the world by volume, and is more than 100 feet around at the base.
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The Tule Tree, or El Árbol del Tule, is a Montezuma cypress tree on the grounds of a church in Santa María del Tule, in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It measures more than 119 feet around but is only 116 feet high. It’s believed that the tree is about 2,000 years old.
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The Tree of Ténéré gets a special mention only because it no longer exists. The 10-foot acacia tree was estimated to be more than 300 years old and at the time of its demise in 1973 was the only tree for more than 250 miles. It was all that remained of a large forest that was slowly swallowed up by the encroaching desert. Today a monument made of metal stands where it once grew.
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Pando, or the Trembling Giant, is a remarkable massive colony of a single quaking aspen trees spread over more than 100 acres in Utah. Every tree in the area shoots from a single organism, and they share a giant underground root system. It’s estimated that Pando collectively weighs 6,615 tons, making it the heaviest living organism on the planet.
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The Chandelier Tree, also known as the drive-thru tree, is a giant redwood located 175 miles north of San Francisco on US 101. The massive tree had the ignoble fate of having a tunnel carved through its base more than 60 years ago and is now the centerpiece of a 200-acre grove of redwoods.
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The Wollemi pine in Australia is a living dinosaur—the oldest Wollemi tree fossil has been dated to 200 million years ago. When a living Wollemi—which isn’t technically a pine tree—was discovered in 1994, scientists were stunned. The exact location of the pines has been kept under wraps to protect the fewer than 100 trees known to be growing in the wild.
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The Tree of Life in Bahrain is one of the world’s loneliest trees. The mesquite tree sits at the highest point in the barren desert of Bahrain, hundreds of miles from another natural tree and is thought to have tap roots reaching hundreds of feet down to aquifers. The exact age of the tree is unknown though it’s generally believed to be more than 400 years old.
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This famous tree near Natal, Brazil, is a 177-year-old cashew tree covering nearly two acres of ground. It was planted in 1888 by a fisherman who was unaware that the tree had a genetic mutation that would allow it to eventually take over so much space. Today the tree is a tourist attraction and park located a few hundred yards from the beach.
And your No. 1 tree is…? Has anyone ever seen one of these trees?
Thanks to the Mother Nature Network for this unbelievable tree slideshow.
–Toshio Suzuki