The Most Incredible and Inspiring Trees In The World
Trees are among the world's oldest living organisms, and they occur in every size, shape, and colour. Flowering trees, thorny trees, and rainbow trees are all beautiful and have the ability to enhance any environment they are in. Here are some of the world's most gorgeous trees.
Ginkgo biloba is a 1,400-year-old Chinese tree.
Every November, a Gingko tree near the Zhongnan Mountains' Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple drops yellow leaves, turning the temple into a yellow ocean.
Rhododendron that is over 125 years old
The Rhododendron is not a tree, but rather a shrub! These plants can range in size from shrubs to small trees. A large Rhododendron in front of someone's house in Canada was captured in this stunning photograph.
Madagascar's baobab trees
These huge trees can reach a height of 100 feet and a width of 35 feet! They are enormous in size. Their ability to keep a significant volume of water in their trunks is amazing. Baobab trees can retain approximately 32,000 gallons of water, allowing them to withstand droughts.
Methuselah
At approximately 5,000 years old, Methuselah is one of the world's oldest trees. It's in Inyo County, California, yet the specific site is kept secret to prevent it from being destroyed.
It's part of a bristlecone pine grove, and another, slightly older tree can still be found there.
Sequoia tree belonging to General Sherman
General Sherman is a huge sequoia tree in California's Sequoia National Park. It is now the world's largest single-stem live tree.
It has a mass of 2,472,000 pounds and is thought to be between 2,400 and 2,800 years old.
Tree of Dragon Blood
These bizarre-looking plants can only be found on Yemen's Socotra Island. It gets its name from the dark red resin that resembles viscous blood. Its unusual appearance, which resembles an erect umbrella, adds to its intriguing attributes.
Tree of Pando
The Pando tree may appear to be a large forest, but it is actually the colour of a single quaking aspen! It is the world's largest creature with a single underground root system. It weighs 6,000,000 kg and is nearly 80,000 years old, making it one of the world's oldest species. It can be found in Utah's Fishlake National Forest.