Notable Trees
Individual trees or set of trees that are particularly remarkable for their size, age or history. This excludes entire forests that do not have at least one or a few trees that stand out.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Ambohimanga | "The royal trees are species of Ficus and Draceana sp., specifically reserved to royal cities, apparently since 1540." (AB ev) | |
| Angkor | Ta Prohm | |
| Anuradhapura | the sacred bodhi tree | |
| Assisi | The monumental holm oaks of the Eremo delle Carceri are monumental trees located within the Monte Subasio Park. Holm oak N° l is located nearby of the so-called Grotta di San Francesco. A sign at the height of the specimen indicates that this is a «Tree from the time of Saint Francis», from which a secular age of 850-1,000 years is estimated, since Francis lived from 1181 to 1226. | |
| Białowieża Forest | Several named oaks | |
| Frontiers of the Roman Empire | Sycamore Gap Tree (felled) | |
| Fujisan | 1000 years old cypress of Kitaguchi Hongu Fuji Sangen Jinja | |
| Greater Blue Mountains | Wollemia nobilis | |
| Hildesheim Cathedral and Church | The rose that climbs on the wall of the cathedral's apse is believed to be the oldest living rose in the world (AB ev) | |
| Huangshan | Huangshan pine | |
| Joggins Fossil Cliffs | The seams preserve, mostly as casts, the upright fossilized trunks of trees up to 7.6m high, which grew in a poorly drained disturbance-prone deltaic plain. There they were preserved by burial 3-4 m deep in flood-deposited alluvial sands and mud (UNEP-WCMC) | |
| Laponian Area | Muddus NP: Sweden's oldest known pine tree is also located here. It has been estimated to be at least 710 years, as it was found to have withstood a forest fire in 1413. (wiki) | |
| Los Alerces National Park | including Argentina’s oldest known tree (2,600 yrs) (AB ev) | |
| Mahabodhi Temple Complex | the sacred bodhi tree of Lord Buddha | |
| Mapungubwe | Giant Baobabs | |
| Mount Etna | The Hundred Horse Chestnut (Castagno dei Cento Cavalli) is the largest and oldest known chestnut tree in the world. It is located on Linguaglossa road in Sant'Alfio, on the eastern slope of Mount Etna (wiki) | |
| Namhansanseong | "A zelkova in front of Pavilion for Command and Military Training is assumed to be 510 years old, and it is designated as a Protected Tree of Gwangju City, No 14. It is 24m in height and 8.9m in circumference." - Nomination File | |
| Ohrid Region | The small cobblestone square near the market is dominated by a large plane tree (Platanus Orientalis), one of Ohrid's best loved landmarks. The tree is 800-900 years old. Its trunk is approximately 20m wide. It has become hollow and in the past has been home to a small barber's shop and a small café. | |
| Olympic National Park | “ It contains one of the world’s largest stands of virgin temperate rainforest, and includes many of the largest coniferous tree species on earth." Criteria (vii) for Inscription "The Olympic rainforest, which reaches its maximum development within the site is, sitka spruce, Douglas fir, western red cedar, and others reach a living standing biomass here which may be the highest of anywhere in the world. " Advisory body Evaluation Official NPS park map includes locations for 3 Big Sitka Spruce Trees, 1 Big Cedar Tree, and 1 Big Douglass-fir Tree. | |
| Padua’s fourteenth-century fresco cycles | The Cloister of the Chapter of the Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua is also called the Magnolia Cloister because in the centre of the garden, there is a rare and majestic specimen of magnolia grandiflora, one of the 88 monumental trees officially registered in Veneto as of 2017. | |
| Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro | Ahuehuete del Buen Retiro | |
| Pirin National Park | Baikushev's pine: "With an approximate age of about 1,300 years,[1] Baikushev's pine is one of the oldest trees in the world" | |
| Qadisha Valley | Cedrus lebani | |
| Redwood | Coastal Redwood, the tallest and one of the most massive tree species on Earth | |
| Singapore Botanic Gardens | Heritage Rubber, Tembusu Tree | |
| Socotra Archipelago | dragon's blood tree | |
| Sub-Antarctic Islands | World's Loneliest Tree (on Campbell Island) | |
| Tassili n'Ajjer | The Tassili Cypress only exists on the Tassili and is one of the oldest trees in the world after the Barbed Pine in the USA. | |
| Temple of Heaven | Nine Dragons Tree | |
| The Royal Court of Tiébélé | "the red fig tree marking the entrance to the Court, beneath which are placed the sacred stones (dala), on which sit the princes and dignitaries" (Ab Ev) | |
| Val d'Orcia | "Cypresses form a striking addition to the landscape planted along routes and around settlements, their regular form punctuating the rounded shapes of the hills and their dark colour contrasting strikingly with the pale landscape." (AB Ev) - More than any other tree, the cypress symbolizes the Val d'Orcia. Whether isolated, in the scrubland or planted in rows, it became a constituent element of the new landscape from the Renaissance onwards, as evidenced by all the iconography of the time, which exalts its symbolic and figurative values. (Nomination file, p. 51) | |
| Victoria Falls | Big Tree at Victoria Falls: "Unusually for a baobab it has both an impressive girth and is very tall. It measures 22.40 metres in girth (2004) and is 24 metres tall (1985)." | |
| Yakushima | Endemic Japanese cedar, Jomon Sugi | |
| Yosemite National Park | Sequoia Groves, Mariposa Grove : Grizzly Giant, Wawona Tree |
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