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Posted by wilson090 18 hours ago

List of individual trees(en.wikipedia.org)
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hopelite 4 hours ago|
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.

hahahahhaah 9 hours ago||
Includes Martin Fowler's strangler fig. Yes it is a design pattern and a tree.
einpoklum 6 hours ago||
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 :-(

campital 11 hours ago||
Is this list comprehensive?
technothrasher 4 hours ago||
How could it be? Growing up, there was a large horse chestnut tree that was a meeting point for all the kids in the neighborhood. It was such a huge part of our lives that it became an icon for our childhood, as several others have agreed with me as adults. It's gone now, as it grew old and diseased and someone cut it down. But it was a very significant tree for many people in the town for many years. I doubt, however, that it, or so many other trees that had similar impact on people, would ever make a Wikipedia list. There are just too many trees.
nephihaha 6 hours ago|||
It can never be. There are many notable trees, but some of them will never have a Wikipedia article.
adzm 11 hours ago||
No, but you can add anything missing if you have a source!
joshu 9 hours ago||
In the heart of Silicon Valley, El Palo Alto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Palo_Alto
quijoteuniv 10 hours ago||
Nice! Includes Mythological and religious trees!
kreeben 9 hours ago|
Why is Pippi Longstocking's "soda pop tree" not on the list? It's dying and the whole of Sweden are freaking out. We're putting tax payer money on solving its disease. We're developing a vaccine to try and save it for gods sake. Yes, this is a very LOL type of situation to the rest of the world, I know that. But it's not a laughing matter in Sweden: https://www.slu.se/nyheter/2025/11/pippis-sockerdrickstrad-r...
thinkingemote 8 hours ago|
Does the tree have a Wikipedia article about it? If not you can add it. If it does, you can add it to the list.

Wikipedia allows anyone to edit and contribute! (although many users don't know that and a smaller than miniscule amount of users actually do.)