Trees are the oldest living things in the world, and they come in different shapes, sizes, and colors. From thorny trees to rainbow trees to flowery trees; they are all beautifully splendid and amplify any atmosphere they are in.
10 - More Than 125-Year-Old Rhododendron Shrub
It is actually a shrub, not a tree. These genera can grow from shrubs to baby trees. This gorgeous picture was taken of a tremendous Rhododendron shrub in front of someone's house in Canada.
9 - Baobab Trees In Madagascar
These extensive trees can grow to a hundred feet tall and thirty-five feet wide. They are utterly huge. What's charming is their ability to store a high volume of water in their trunks. Baobab trees can store nearly thirty-two thousand gallons of water to defy drought.
8 - More than 1,400-Year-Old Chinese Ginkgo Trees
The Ginkgo tree, also known as the maidenhair, is sometimes referred to as a 'living fossil' because, despite all the extreme climate changes, it has survived unchanged for over two hundred million years. It links to the era when the dinosaurs existed on the earth. Every year in November, this Ginkgo tree growing next to the Guanyin Buddhist Temple in the Zhongnan Mountains drops yellow leaves, transforming the temple into a yellowish ocean. Species of the Ginkgo tree have over 1,400 years of life.
7 - Japanese Maple In Oregon (Portland)
This tree is so popular, it has its own Flickr group dedicated to it. It's been highlighted on National Geographic and is in the Japanese Garden in Oregon, Portland. It's easy to see the leaves shine with various colors that differ from green to crimson to russet.
6 - General Sherman Sequoia Tree
General Sherman is a monstrous sequoia tree in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in the United States (California). It is the biggest known living single-stem tree in the world. Its measured mass is 2,472,000 lbs and is estimated to be about 2,400–2,800 years old.
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5 - Methuselah Tree
Methuselah is one of the oldest known trees, at nearly fifty thousand years old. It is in California (Inyo County). Although its accurate location is not revealed to protect it from destruction. It is a member of a Bristlecone pine grove, where another tree a bit older also lives to this day.
4 - Angel Oak Tree
The Angel Oak tree is about four hundred years old, and its branches go in every way. The tree gives shade, which stretches approximately 17,200 square feet. The Angel Oak tree is in South Carolina (Charleston).
3 - The Trees of Dead Vlei (The Skeleton Trees)
These trees look like skeleton-like trees in Namibia (Deadvlei). The trees are estimated to be about a hundred years old. It is said it once was brimming with life, and now only hosts the skeletons of the trees. The temperature is so dry that the trees left over can't correctly decompose.
2 - Pando Tree
The Pando tree is also called the trembling giant. While the Pando tree may falsely be taken for an extensive forest, it is actually the color of one quaking aspen. It is the most comprehensive single organism and has only one root system in the underground. It's measured to weigh 6,000,000 kg and is approximately 80,000 years old; making it also one of the oldest known organisms. It is in Utah (Fishlake National Forest, U.S.).
1 - Socotra Dragon Blood Tree
These wild and insane-looking trees only grow in Yemen on Socotra Island. It is known as dragon blood for its dark red resin, which looks like blood. Its freakish appearance only adds to its interesting features, as it looks like an umbrella.