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:''"List of trees" redirects here. For lists of tree genera, see [[tree]].''

The following is a partial '''list of famous trees'''. The list includes individual [[tree]]s located throughout the world, as well as [[#Mythological and religious|trees from myths]] and [[#Fictional|trees from fiction]].

== Real Forests and Individual Trees ==
===Africa===
;Living
* The [[Cotton Tree]], historic symbol of [[Freetown]], [[Sierra Leone]].
* [[Post Office Tree]] in [[Mossel Bay]], [[South Africa]], used by early sailors to leave messages.
* The [[Wonderboom]], a sprawling fig tree in [[Pretoria]], South Africa.

;Historical
* [[Arbre du Ténéré]], a very isolated tree in the Sahara region, destroyed in [[1973]].

===Asia===
;Living
*The [[Cedars of God]], a small forest of about 400 [[Lebanon Cedar]] trees at about 2,300 meters above sea level in the mountains of northern [[Lebanon]]. The Cedars of Lebanon are mentioned in the [[Bible]] over 70 times and used as symbols of the Messiah, and were prized by historical figures such as Herod, Alexander, and Caesar.
*[[The Great Banyan]] in the botanical garden near Kolkata, a [[colonal colony]] of Indian [[Banyan]] with a crown circumference of over 330m.
*The [[Sri Maha Bodhi]] tree, a [[Sacred Fig]] propagated from the [[Bodhi tree]], planted in [[288 BC]] at [[Anuradhapura]], [[Sri Lanka]].
*The 450 year-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]].
*[[Jomon Sugi]], a very large, old [[Cryptomeria|Sugi]] on [[Yakushima]] island, [[Japan]].
*The [[Banyan|Strangler Fig]] trees at [[Ta Prohm]], [[Angkor]], [[Cambodia]]
*The 1000 year-old [[ginkgo]] tree at [[Tsurugaoka Hachiman Shrine]].
*The 400 year-old mesquite [[Tree_of_Life,_Bahrain|Tree of Life]] in Bahrain
;Historical
*The [[Bodhi tree]], a [[Sacred Fig]] tree under which [[Buddha]] is supposed to have been enlightened, at [[Bodh Gaya]], [[India]]. The current tree at the site is a later replacement.
*[[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).
*[[Changi Tree]], a historical visual landmark located in [[Singapore]]. Thought to be a specimen of ''Sindora wallichii'', with an estimated height of 75 metres, it was felled with explosive charges during the [[Second World War]] to prevent its use as a ranging aide by the approaching Japanese artillery.
*The [[Red Forest]], formerly the Worm Wood Forest, refers to the trees growing in the 10 km² surrounding the [[Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] and is one of several of the [[Chernobyl disaster effects]]. The name 'Red Forest' comes from the ginger brown colour of the pine trees after they died following the absorption of high levels of radiation from the [[Chernobyl disaster]] on April 26, 1986.

===Europe===
;Living
*The [[forest swastika]] was a patch of carefully arranged [[larch]] trees covering a 60 [[square yard]] area of [[pine]] forest near [[Zernikow]], [[Germany]].
*[[Caesarsboom]] (Ceasar's Tree) is a ''[[taxus baccata]]'' tree in the town of [[Lo]], [[Belgium]] which is famous for the legend that the [[Roman Emperor]] [[Julius Ceasar]] attached his horse when conquerring the region.
*[[Granit oak]], an [[oak]] in Granit village near [[Stara Zagora]] in [[Bulgaria]]; one of the oldest trees in [[Europe]], estimated to be about 1650 years old. Its crown spread covers an area of 1017 square metres, its girth is 7.45 m and its height is 23.4 m.
*[[Bartek (oak)|Bartek]], an [[oak]] growing in [[Zagnansk]] in [[Swietokrzyskie Mountains]]; the most famous tree in [[Poland]], said to be about 1200 years old, but after research more accurately about 650 years, 30 m tall, measures 9.5 m in girth at breast height and 13.5 m near the ground and its crown spread is about 40 m.
*[[Fortingall Yew]], a [[Taxaceae|yew]] at [[Perth and Kinross]], [[Perthshire]], [[Scotland]]; probably the oldest tree in [[Europe]], thought by some to be about 4,000 years old.
*[[Gernikako Arbola]], an [[oak]] representing the [[Basque people]], at [[Guernica]], [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]], [[Spain]].
*The [[Queen Elizabeth Oak]] in the grounds of the [[Royal Palace of Hatfield]] in Hertfordshire UK is said to be the location where [[Elizabeth I of England]] was told she was Queen in [[1558]].
*[[Kongeegen]] (the King Oak), an ancient [[Pedunculate oak]] in Jægerspris Nordskov, [[Sjælland]], [[Denmark]]; estimated to be over 1200 years old, the oldest [[tree]] in Denmark.
*[[Major Oak]], an ancient [[Pedunculate oak]] in [[Sherwood Forest]], [[Nottinghamshire]], [[England]], the most famous and most visited tree of [[Great Britain]]. About 800 years old, with a girth at breast height of 10.5 m.
*[[Ivenack Oak]], a huge and ancient [[Pedunculate oak]] in Ivenack, [[Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania]], [[Germany]], thought to be about 800 years old, 35 m tall, 11 m in girth at breast height and 16.5 m near the ground. The largest oak of Germany and (in wood volume) probably of Europe.
*[[Baikushev's Pine]], an ancient [[Bosnian Pine]] in the [[Pirin]] mountains near [[Bansko]], [[Bulgaria]], estimated to be 1300 years old, 24 m tall, 6.9 m in girth at breast height. One of the oldest trees of Bulgaria.
*[[Icod_de_los_Vinos#Ancient_Dragon_Tree|Drago Milenario]], a very old [[Dracaena_draco|Dracaena draco]] located in [[Icod_de_los_Vinos|Icod de los Vinos]], [[Tenerife]], which has been a local tourist attraction for more than a hundred years (mentioned by [[Alexander_von_Humboldt|Humboldt]], for instance).
*[[Stelmužė Oak]], a [[Pedunculate oak]] in [[Stelmužė]], [[Zarasai district]], [[Lithuania]] is thought to be around 1500 years old, with a girth at breast height of 9.58 m and 13 m near the ground. The oldest tree in [[Lithuania]] and the [[Baltic States]].

;Historical
*[[Merlin's Oak]] at [[Carmarthen, Wales]].
*[[Glastonbury Abbey#The Glastonbury Thorn|Glastonbury Thorn]], a [[Common Hawthorn|hawthorn]] reputed to have been planted by [[Joseph of Arimathea]].
*[[Irminsul]], a tree venerated by the [[Saxon people|Saxons]]. It was located near Eresburg castle, Paderborn, and was destroyed by [[Charlemagne]] in 772.
*The [[Lone Pine (tree)]], a [[Turkish Pine]] used as a landmark in the [[Australian and New Zealand Army Corps|ANZAC]] landings at [[Gallipoli]] in the [[World War I|First World War]]. Seeds collected from this tree are planted at many [[Australia]]n [[war memorial]]s.
*[[Royal Oak (tree)|Royal Oak]], the [[Pedunculate oak]] in which [[Charles II of England|King Charles II]] hid to escape the [[Roundheads]] following the [[Battle of Worcester]] in [[1651]], located in Boscobel, [[England]] (deceased and replaced by a descendant).
*[[Shakespeare]]'s [[mulberry]] tree at New Place, [[Stratford-upon-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===
;Living
*The [[Angel Oak]], a [[Southern live oak]] on [[Johns Island, South Carolina]], near [[Charleston, South Carolina]] is estimated at 1400 years of age. The tree and surrounding park have been owned by the neighboring city of Charleston since 1991.
*El [[Árbol del Tule]], the stoutest tree in the world, a [[Taxodium mucronatum|Montezuma Cypress]] in [[Santa María del Tule]], [[Oaxaca (state)|Oaxaca]], [[Mexico]].
*The [[Balmville Tree]], the oldest [[cottonwood|eastern cottonwood]] in the [[Eastern United States]], in [[Balmville, New York]]. Among its other protections, it is [[New York]]'s smallest [[state forest]].
*[[The Big Tree, Rockport|The Big Tree - Goose Island]], Texas' Largest Tree in Goose Island State Park, [[Rockport, Texas]].
*[[Chandelier Tree]], a [[Sequoia|Coast Redwood]] with a passage for cars cut through.
*[[The Devil's Tree]],
in [[Bernards Township, New Jersey]]. Solitary oak is believed to punish those who damage or disrespect it.
*[[El Palo Alto]], a [[Coast Redwood]] in [[Palo Alto, California]].
*The [[General Grant tree]], the "Nation's [[Christmas tree|Christmas Tree]]" of the United States, a [[Giant Sequoia]] in [[Kings Canyon National Park]], [[California]].
*The [[General Sherman tree]], the world's largest living thing, a [[Giant Sequoia]] in [[Sequoia National Park]], [[California]].
*The [[Hangman's Elm]], an [[English Elm]] and the oldest known tree in [[Manhattan]].
*[[Hyperion (tree)|Hyperion]], a [[Sequoia|Coast Redwood]] in [[California]], at 115.5 m tall the tallest tree in the world, found in 2006.
**[[Stratosphere Giant]], also a Coast Redwood, 112.8 m tall, the tallest tree in the world until displaced by Hyperion.
*[[Le Chêne à Papineau]], a 20 m tall [[Northern Red Oak]] in [[Montebello, Quebec]]. At 300 years old, it is one of the oldest known trees in [[Quebec]].
*The Circus Trees, a group of trees shaped into artistic forms by [[Axel Erlandson]] in [[California]]
*The [[Lone Cypress]], a dramatically situated [[Monterey Cypress]] on the [[17 Mile Drive]] in [[Pebble Beach, California]].
*[[Methuselah (tree)|Methuselah]], the oldest known living organism (approximately 4,700 years), a [[Great Basin Bristlecone Pine]] in [[California]].
*The [[National Christmas Tree]], a [[blue spruce]] planted in [[President's Park]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]. It was 9 m (30 feet) tall when it was transplated from [[York, Pennsylvania]] in 1978.
*[[Pando (Quaking Aspen)]], an [[aspen]] colony, is the oldest known [[clonal colony]] at possibly 80,000 years, and the heaviest at six million kilograms (6,000 tonnes).
*The [[Queens Giant]], a [[Liriodendron|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.
*The [[Seven Sisters Oak]], a [[Southern live oak]] in Lewisberg, Louisiana, is believed to be nearly 1,500 years of age. The tree has a girth of over 38 feet and is the president of the [[Live Oak Society]].
*''The Survivor Tree'', an [[American Elm]] that is incorporated into the [[Oklahoma City National Memorial]].
*[[Treaty Oak, Austin|Treaty Oak]], in [[Austin, Texas]].
*The [[Tree That Owns Itself]], a white oak tree that owns itself and all land within 2.5 m (8 feet) of it in [[Athens, Georgia]].
*The [[Washington tree]], a [[Sequoiadendron|Giant Sequoia]] in [[California]].
* The [[Burmis tree]], near [[Crowsnest Pass, Alberta]].

;Historical
*The [[Charter Oak]], in which the [[Connecticut]] charter was hidden from English governor-general Sir [[Edmund Andros]].
*The [[Geneseo Big Tree]] at [[Geneseo, New York]], a giant tree on the [[Genesee River]], reported by some as an [[American elm|elm]] by others as an [[oak]]. It was the site of the [[1797]] [[Treaty of Big Tree]] between [[Robert Morris (merchant)|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 [[Hooker Oak]] at [[Chico, California]].
*[[Kiidk'yaas]], a rare golden [[Sitka Spruce]] sacred to the [[Haida]], on [[Haida Gwaii]] (Queen Charlotte Islands), [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]]. Felled in [[1997]]
*The [[Liberty Tree]] at [[Boston, Massachusetts]].
*The [[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.
*The [[Mingo Oak]], formerly the oldest and largest white oak in the United States until its fall on [[September 10]], [[1938]]. It was located in [[Mingo County, West Virginia|Mingo County]], [[West Virginia]].
*The [[Prometheus (tree)|Prometheus]], a [[Great Basin Bristlecone Pine]], was the oldest living non-clonal organism. The age was estimated at 5000 years. The tree was cut down on August 6, 1964 by a graduate student and U.S. Forest Service personnel for research purposes, though at the time they did not know of its world-record age.
*The [[Wye Oak]] in [[Maryland]].
*The [[Treaty of Greenville]] Tree. Greenville, Ohio
*The Washington Oak, on Hampton Plantation near [[Charleston, South Carolina]]. When [[George Washington]] visited in 1791, [[Eliza Lucas|Eliza Lucas Pinckney]] complained about a [[Southern live oak|live oak]] that blocked the view. Washington remarked that he liked the tree, so it was saved, and ever thereafter was known as the Washington Oak.
*[[Wawona Tree]], a [[giant sequoia]] with a tunnel cut through it. Fell in 1969.

;Other
*[[Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree]], a [[Christmas tree]] on display every December in [[Rockefeller Center]], [[New York City]].

===Oceania===
;Living
*Wollemi Pine ([[Wollemia]]), [[Wollemi National Park]], Blue Mountains, NSW - described as a living fossil
*[[Dave Evans Bicentennial Tree]], [[Karri]] forest fire lookout tree with accessible platform, near [[Pemberton, Western Australia|Manjimup]], [[Australia]].
*[[Diamond Tree]], [[Karri]] forest fire lookout tree with accessible wooden platform (52m high), 10km from [[Manjimup, Western Australia|Manjimup]], [[Australia]].
*[[Burke and Wills expedition#The Dig Tree|Dig Tree]], [[Cooper Creek]], Queensland, used as a marker by members of the ill-fated [[Burke and Wills expedition]].
*[[Gloucester Tree]], Western Australia's most famous [[Karri]] tree, with accessible aluminium platform, in [[Gloucester National Park]] (61m high), [[Australia]].
*[[Old Jarrah Tree]], Perth, Western Australia.
*[[The Old Gum Tree|Old Gum Tree]], [[Glenelg, South Australia|Glenelg]], 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]].
*[[Banyan Tree Park]], a 132 year-old tree in [[Lāhainā, Hawai'i]]. The tree was imported from India and was 2.5 m (8 feet) tall when it was planted on [[April 24]] [[1873]] by Sheriff William O. Smith to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Christian missionary work. The tree is now 18 m (60 feet) high with 12 major trunks.
*A large [[Boab]] Tree was actually used as a prison during WWII, the name of the tree became "Prison Boab", the tree is located in [[Derby, Western Australia]].
;Historical
*The [[Tree of Knowledge (Australia)|Tree of Knowledge]] near [[Barcaldine, Queensland]] under which the [[Australian Labour Party]] was traditionally founded. In an act of vandalism, the tree was poisoned and was eventually declared dead in October 2006.
*The [[One Tree Hill, New Zealand#Trees on the hill|pine of One Tree Hill]], a [[radiata pine]] which stood alone until 2000 atop One Tree Hill (Maunga-Kiekie), an extinct volcanic cone in [[Auckland|Auckland city]], New Zealand.

== Mythological and religious ==
*[[Cutting of the elm]], a legendary event concerning a tree at [[Gisors]].
*[[Cypress of Kashmar]], planted by [[Zoroaster]] and felled by [[Al-Mutawakkil|Caliph Al Mutawakkil]].
*[[Égig érő fa]], the "Tree Reaching into the Sky" of Hungarian folk art and a folk tale type
*[[Jievaras]], the World tree in [[Lithuanian mythology]].
* [[Man-eating tree]]
*[[Thor's Oak]], a sacred tree to the ancient [[Chatti]].
*[[Tree of Jesse]], from which the Cross was made, in medieval Christian legend.
*[[Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil]], from [[Christianity]] and [[Judaism]].
*[[Tree of Life]], from [[Christianity]] and [[Judaism]].
*[[Yggdrasil]], The World Tree in the [[Norse mythology|Old Norse religion]].
*[[Slavic mythology#World|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 [[The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever|Chronicles of Thomas Covenant]].
*[[Telperion]] and [[Laurelin]], the [[Two Trees of Valinor|Two Trees]] of [[Valinor]], from ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' 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]]
*The [[Mana Tree]] from the ''[[Seiken Densetsu]]'' series.
*The [[Kite-Eating Tree]] from [[Peanuts]].
*[[The_Magic_Faraway_Tree_series| The Magic Faraway Tree]] from the books by Enid Blyton.
*[[The Solar Tree]] from the [[Boktai]] series of video games.

== See also ==
*[[List of great British trees]]
*[[Red Forest]]
*[[List of long-living organisms]]

== External Links ==
*[http://www.tenerifepictures.com/dragontree-icoddelosvinostenerife.html Photos of the Dragon Tree in Tenerife]
*[http://www.platial.com/tracy_the_astonishing/map/20992 Map of this list] (in progress)

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