The UK has quite a few ancient yew trees. Some may be over 2000 years old. Often they are in church grounds (because ones that weren't got cut down to make long bows perhaps?).
One of the many nice things about nature is that almost everything is interesting and unique in some particular way, be it longevity, size, or far more specific traits, across all species, all domains of natural science.
sheept 19 hours ago||
On mobile, this website seems to prevent you from pinch zooming in, which makes it slightly inconvenient to quickly zoom into the photos of the trees.
mbeex 19 hours ago||
Can do it on Ironfox Android (quite a forbidding browser) without problems. Not even JavaScript is allowed here.
philipov 16 hours ago||
It's to help you learn to recognise different types of trees from quite a long way away.
orthoxerox 16 hours ago||
Number thirty-three: the larch. The larch.
jareklupinski 9 hours ago||
> but you know wood? You know when you hold something in your hand, and it’s made of wood, and you can tell that? Yeah, that thing.
everyone should have a copy of Identifying Wood on their metal bookshelf
firefoxd 10 hours ago||
I remember when a Century Plant just sprouted in my back yard. In the span of a month, it grew 8 meters. It looks very alien in the process.
Are you sure the Madagascar traveller's tree is not a camouflaged mobile network antenna?
bawolff 13 hours ago||
There is something fascinating about someone getting a copy of Encyclopedia Brititanica, reading about trees, and then going to Wikipedia for pictures and to fill out details.
curl-up 17 hours ago||
Highly recommend a series on Lodoicea (aka Double coconut or Coco de mer) from the Weird Explorer yt channel: https://youtu.be/GqicsIDYmgU
karussell 17 hours ago|
I highly recommend this 12min video "Trees Are So Weird"