We start with General Sherman who is perhaps the most famous of all. It's a Giant Sequoia in California. This specimen has the highest amount of biomass on Earth. It is not the tallest or the widest, but the one with the largest volume.
The Methuselah tree, a bristlecone pine, is one of the world's most ancient trees. It's roughly 4,853 years old, meaning it's older than Egypt's pyramids. It lives in the Inyo National Forest, also known as the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, in California, which has a high density of bristlecone pines.
The chestnut is the most useful tree in the world. There are four major species – American Chestnut (Castanea dentata), European Chestnut (C. sativa), Chinese Chestnut (C. mollissima), and Japanese Chestnut (C.
Oaks: The king of trees.
Eucalypts are iconic Australian forest trees. The Eucalyptus forest type is by far the most common forest type in Australia covering 101 million hectares, which is 77% of Australia's total native forest area. The term 'eucalypt' includes approximately 800 species in the three genera Angophora, Corymbia and Eucalyptus.
The world's rarest tree is Pennantia baylisiana, also called Three Kings Kaikomako. It was near extinction because the only remaining specimen was female and could not reproduce. However, botanists found viable fruits and planted them within botanical gardens around the world to save it.
The General Sherman Tree is the world's largest tree, measured by volume. It stands 275 feet (83 m) tall, and is over 36 feet (11 m) in diameter at the base. Sequoia trunks remain wide high up.
The Huon pine is Australia's oldest living tree and is one of the oldest living organisms on earth. Individuals have been known to reach an age of 3,000 years. Fossil records from a tree found in a boggy area in the south west of Tasmania were dated at 3,462 years!
Australia's mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) is the second tallest growing tree species in the world. The tallest specimen – nicknamed 'Centurion' – stands at 99.6m in Tasmania's Arve Valley.
The first "tree" appears during the Devonian period, between 350 and 420 million years ago. This Progymnosperm is called Archaeopteris. Its wood resembles that of conifers, its trunk is thick, and it can reach up to 50 m.
Tallest historically
All three of the tallest tree species continue to be Coast redwoods, Douglas fir and Giant mountain ash. Note: all the references to this species are historical accounts - there is no currently known living klinki of this height.
In Norse mythology, Yggdrasill is an enormous ash tree that connects the nine worlds, including the underworld (Niflheim), the earth (Midgard), and the realm of the gods (Asgard).
The Mongarlowe mallee, also known as the 'ice age gum', may be Australia's loneliest tree. Since its discovery in 1985, extensive searching has revealed the existence of just six trees from four sites. These trees aren't just rare, they're also old.
Methuselah is a 4,854-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing high in the White Mountains of Inyo County in eastern California.
Some trees can live for centuries or even millennia but the secrets behind their long life spans have eluded scientists. However, new research has found that the ginkgo tree, which can live more than 1,000 years, doesn't really show any expected effects of aging — they appear to be primed for immortality.
Eucalypts. With 2,800 species of eucalypts (gum trees), these are the trees most commonly associated with Australia.
Crepe Myrtle
These trees are hardy and deciduous with colourful autumn foliage, and a spectacular trunk with beautiful ornate bark. They have beautiful autumn foliage and spring growth and will also inject some wonderful red, pink, white, or deep mauve colour into your garden in summer.
The Cazneaux Tree, also known as Cazneaux's Tree, is a Eucalyptus camaldulensis or river red gum that was made famous by the photographer Harold Cazneaux. It is in the Australian state of South Australia in the locality of Flinders Ranges near Wilpena Pound.
Though the genus Acacia has over a thousand species across the world (commonly known as “wattle”) which range from shrubs to shade trees, the umbrella thorn acacia (Vachellia tortilis), makes a case for being the “smartest” of them all.
Holly. Holly trees have many magical links as both Pagan and Christian lore speak of its associated symbolism for death and subsequent rebirth—particularly in winter and during the Winter Solstice since its famous bright red berries are in full bloom when the rest of the world appears to be dead.
Sugar maples are aptly named and used for this process because they have one of the sweetest saps around; as they are one of the trees with the highest sugar content. Other trees can produce sap that is turned into syrup; however, it usually has an unpleasant flavor.
1. Australian Buloke – 5,060 IBF. An ironwood tree that is native to Australia, this wood comes from a species of tree occurring across most of Eastern and Southern Australia. Known as the hardest wood in the world, this particular type has a Janka hardness of 5,060 lbf.