List of famous trees (original) (raw)

Here is a list of famous trees.

Physical

• Assattha, a Bodhi tree under which Buddha is supposed to have been enlightened, at Bodh Gaya, India
• the General Grant tree, the official Christmas tree of the United States, a giant sequoia, in Sequoia National Park, California, USA
• the General Sherman tree, the world's largest tree, a giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park, California, USA
• the Gernikako Arbola, an oak representing the Basque people, at Guernica, Basque Country, Spain
• the Tree of Hippocrates, the plane tree under which Hippocrates is supposed to have taught, on the island of Kos, Greece
• Kiidk'yaas, a rare golden spruce sacred to the Haida, on Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, Canada
• Liberty Tree at Boston, Massachusetts
• Major Oak, an ancient oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England
• Merlin's Oak at Carmarthen, Wales
• Methuselah, the oldest known living organism (approximately 4,700 years), a bristlecone pine in California
• Tyburne Tree, the gallows for London

Mythological and religious

• Tree of Knowledge (Christianity and Judaism)
• Tree of Life (Christianity and Judaism)
• Yggdrasil (Norse religion)

Fictional

• Avendesora and Avendoraldera from Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
• The Giving Tree, in the book of that title by Shel Silverstein
• The One Tree from Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
• White Tree of Gondor from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Telperion and Laurelin, the Two Trees of Valinor, from The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien