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 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.
The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) has been deemed the oldest tree in existence, reaching an age of over 5,000 years old. The bristlecone pine's success in living a long life can be attributed to the harsh conditions it lives in.
Betula chichibuensis, commonly known as Chichibu birch (Chichibu-Minebari in Japanese), is a species of birch native exclusively to limestone outcrops in the Okuchichibu and Kitakami Mountains of central and northeast Honshu, Japan.
The Torrey pine is the rarest native pine in the United States and, possibly, the rarest pine in the world. It only grows naturally in two places. One is here on Santa Rosa Island and the other is near San Diego.
How long does it live? 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!
An African Black Ebony tree from Gabon could be worth a million dollars, if you can find one. Due to its high value many species of Black Ebony are now extinct or on the verge of extinction.
In eastern California, a Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) known as Methuselah has long been considered Earth's oldest living thing. According to tree-ring data, Methuselah is 4,853 years old — meaning it was well established by the time ancient Egyptians built the pyramids at Giza.
This old and rare tree species was thought, until recently to be extinct. Nobody knew that in a remote comer of China people had kept and propagated it.
The tradition of celebrating the blooming of cherry trees in Japan is centuries old. The planting of cherry trees in Washington DC originated in 1912 as a gift of friendship to the People of the United States from the People of Japan. In Japan, the flowering cherry tree, or "Sakura," is an important flowering plant.
Scientists have discovered the secret of how the ginkgo tree can live for more than 1,000 years. A study found the tree makes protective chemicals that fend off diseases and drought. And, unlike many other plants, its genes are not programmed to trigger inexorable decline when its youth is over.
Prometheus, a Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) in Wheeler Peak, Nevada, lived close to 5,000 years before it was cut down in 1964. It remains the longest-lived tree definitively documented. Prometheus met its end when geographer Donald R.
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.
Australians have chosen the river red gum (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) as their favourite native tree in ABC's national poll. “The river red gum is the perfect Australian tree.
Eucalypts. With 2,800 species of eucalypts (gum trees), these are the trees most commonly associated with Australia.
Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus trees are one of the most iconic and common trees in Australia. Eucalyptus trees are as iconically Australian as the koalas that feed on their leaves.
The 1400 year old ginkgo tree is incredible in so many ways. Equally as incredible as this tree that owns itself. It's so breathtaking, in fact, that nearly 60,000 people are expected to line up to view the precious tree in a 20 day period.
Cherry blossoms are also used for friendship between China and Japan. In 1973, the following year of the Japan–China Joint Communiqué, Japan sent cherry trees to China as a symbol of friendship, and they were planted in the Yuyuantan Park in Beijing.
Some 50 varieties of flowering cherry trees are believed to exist in China. Many of them bear pale pink flowers, like the Somei-yoshino variety often seen in Japan. But wild varieties with deep pink blossoms are also particularly popular in China, where red is a lucky color.
Microscopic grains of dead stars are the oldest known material on the planet — older than the moon, Earth and the solar system itself. By examining chemical clues in a meteorite's mineral dust, researchers have determined the most ancient grains are 7 billion years old — about half as old as the universe.
Hyperion is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in California that is the world's tallest known living tree, measuring 115.92 m (380.3 ft).
The world's largest tree is the Hyperion, which is a coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and is located somewhere in the heart of Redwood National Park in California. How tall is the tallest tree in the world? The Hyperion reaches a staggering 380 feet tall!
Diamonds might also be formed inside carbon rich stars like what dwarfs. So, as per our current understanding it can be safely said that wood is more rare than diamonds, in the entire galaxy. The extreme heat and pressure combined, actually modified graphite, a crystalline carbon, on the atomic level.
Pink ivory (Phyllogeiton zeyheri, syn. Berchemia zeyheri), also called purple ivory, red ivory, umnini or umgoloti, is an African hardwood used to make a variety of products (for example: billiard cues and knife handles).