List of individual trees

Posted by wilson090 1/16/2026

List of individual trees(en.wikipedia.org)

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divbzero 1/16/2026|

One of Wikipedia’s greatest contributions is collecting records like this that wouldn’t appear in a traditional encyclopedia.

fudgybiscuits 1/16/2026||

Yeah you can bet the Fuck Tree wouldn't make it into any encyclopedia.

y-curious 1/16/2026||

Have you considered that you just aren’t reading the cool encyclopedias?

fudgybiscuits 1/16/2026||

Fair point. If you've got a connect I am all ears!

FarmerPotato 1/16/2026||

I think the term for this is 'miscellany' . See Ben Schott's Original Miscellany, and follow-on books. One stand-out is 'Untimely Deaths of Pop Stars' with columns for recording 'Overdose', 'Defenestration' etc. (Check all that apply.) It also organizes weird units of measure, 50 US state conventions for dashed road lines (great example of graphical chart) and day of the week toasts onboard a ship.

fuzztester 1/16/2026||

Adyar banyan tree in Chennai is missing.

https://www.ts-adyar.org/banyan-tree

oasisbob 1/16/2026|

Ahhh, that is fantastic tree. I've been there, it's in a really nice quiet place. Huge!

rmunn 1/16/2026||

But does the article include a handy list of How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away?

arethuza 1/16/2026||

My own favourite - the Last Ent of Affric:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Ent_of_Affric

einpoklum 1/16/2026|

TIL: The UK designates "trees of special national interest", and has a "Tree of the Year" competition:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_the_Year_(United_Kingd...

rplnt 1/16/2026||

However obscure this page might be, I was there just a few days ago. Clicked on it from this article about a tree that was cut down, and it was apparently a big thing in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_Gap_tree

domh 1/16/2026||

This was huge news in the UK when it happened. Massive public uproar for an illegal felling. The perpetrators were both jailed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6295zv9101o

jcul 1/16/2026|||

I can understand the outrage. Was there any motivation given for why they cut it down? Just vandalism?

nephihaha 1/16/2026|||

I've been following the story for a while and it has never been adequately explained by mainstream media. Consider this... They drove for over an hour in the middle of the night in foul weather to a remote location to cut down a particular tree. That suggests some preplanning.

domh 1/16/2026|||

Yeah I think so. Attention seeking, maybe something to do with a planning application to live somewhere being rejected too: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn811px4m7mo

Honestly it's my first time looking at the story for a while! I just knew they got jail time for it.

comrade1234 1/16/2026|||

"What are you in for?"

vanderZwan 1/16/2026||

I remember that incident! As a side-effect I discovered that beautiful panorama picture[0], which was perfect for my two-monitors-plus-laptop-screen set-up aside from the low resolution, so I used my stippling notebook[1] to hide that a little bit[2]. I could probably tweak the stippling settings a bit to have prettier output, but it's been my wallpaper for over two years now.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Sycamore...

[1] https://observablehq.com/@jobleonard/a-fast-colored-stipple-...

[2] https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/... https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/... https://blindedcyclops.neocities.org/sycamore_gap_tree_pano/...

hopelite 1/16/2026||

The saddest part of this is that we really have no idea just how many or the oldest redwood trees that were felled in California and on the western cost of the USA that were possibly multiple thousands of years old, i.e., 4000 years, possibly even 6000 years based on old images and accounts of trees, and that's just what we do have signals about.

Side note; there are several places in Europe where Sequoias were planted at various times and are basically infants at 150-200 years old, having been brought back to Europe by explorers and aristocrats.

madcaptenor 1/16/2026||

One tree I'm surprised not to see here - the tree that Newton sat under that supposedly hit him on the head with an apple.

einpoklum 1/16/2026||

And in contrast to that, have a look at home many trees we are losing every year:

https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation

some of which could have made it to this list of special trees :-(

FarmerPotato 1/16/2026||

I'm sure everybody could name local examples of Trees of Mild Renown.

Mine is the Jollyman Oak, which stood in Jollyman Park on Stelling Road, Cupertino and was 160 years old before residential re-development crushed its root system.

I heard about its death via Facebook.

physicsguy 1/16/2026|

Glad to see the Major Oak on there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Oak

Lots of school trips to see a wonky tree were had as a child!

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