The African baobab tree (called the Baobab in Sudan) is the oldest living flowering plant. It can live for more than 1000 years.
www.ancient-origins.net
“Never say there is nothing Beautiful in the World anymore. There is always something to make you Wonder in the shape of a Tree.”?
― Albert Schweitzer
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Pistachio Tree growing from solid rock, Iran
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The thinking olive tree over 3,000 yrs.old is located in
Genosa taranto
Italy.
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Lourdes Dela Pena
Tracy Jones-Henry
Nordland, Norway
Hosanna Durai
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Amazing Fairytale Tree House
Gina Floris
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Thought this was beautiful and wanted to share
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Bound by two ancient yew trees, this door looks more like a portal to a fairy realm than a church entrance. St Edward’s Church was built in the Middle Ages and is now a medley of fixtures from various centuries. Explore the building and you’ll find fragments dating from the 1000s through the 1600s, as well as pieces installed during Victorian-era restorations. Its tree-framed north door was constructed during the 13th century. Food for thought – This door inspired JRR Tolkien’s for the Gate of Moria (the Lord of the Rings).
Louise Cockrill
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The Bosco Verticale / Vertical Forest high-rise complex in Milan, Italy. The plant life, which is said to equal 3 hectares of forests (20,000 sq m), not only moderates the temperature in summer and winter but also converts as much as 30 tonnes of CO2 each year. On top of that, it filters out dust particles, protects the residents from noise pollution and creates a microhabitat for insects and birds.
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Keya Chakraborty
Giant iron tree in Russia’s ministry of Agriculture building.
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Came across this tree in the Derbyshire countryside in England during the Summer …. I see a dragon clutching an umbrella, what do you see?
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I’m sure they vary, but either way it’s super neat
Stairway to heaven
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1400 year old ginkgo tree
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Methuselah is a 4853-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) growing in the White Mountains, California. It germinated in 2833 BC.
Image: Chao Yen / Flickr (CC by 2.0: https://bit.ly/2sEboda)
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nom nom.
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Visual Storyteller
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Pareidolia spotted in the BargstraBe-Odenwald Nature Park in South Germany.
Photo : Geo-Naturepark BargstraBe-Odenwald.
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Photo by Michael Schwab
Red Tingle (RED Tingle) (Eucalyptus jacksonii) in Walpole Nornalup National Park in southwestern Australia.
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Photo: Dag Peak
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My Modern Met
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Thousand years old Baobab tree, Africa
Contains 121 tones of water (appr)
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Tree holds its ground
My Clarence Valley
The Tree of Life is right here. Created naturally after a few stormy days here in the Clarence Valley
The Water is soaked by Tea Tree Oils hence the brown colour and the extra water flowing out of the lake has created this stunning natural master piece
We can’t take our eyes off it
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This bonsai tree was planted in 1625, survived the atomic bomb in Hiroshima 1945 and continues living…
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Poster
Kalil Gibran
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Traces of History and Archeology and Art
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Ancient Hollow Olive Tree.
It is Considered To Be Around 2000 Years Old and Still Producing Olives.
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The Magical Elephant Tree
In Thailand
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Eirik Duke
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The origin of the term “Tree hugger”
The first tree huggers were 294 men and 69 women belonging to the Bishnois branch of Hinduism, who, in 1730, died while trying to protect the trees in their village from being turned into the raw material for building a palace. They literally clung to the trees, while being slaughtered by the foresters. But their action led to a royal decree prohibiting the cutting of trees in any Bishnoi village. And now those villages are virtual wooded oases amidst an otherwise desert landscape.
Not only that, the Bishnois inspired the Chipko movement (chipko means “to cling” in Hindi) that started in the 1970s, when a group of peasant women in the Himalayan hills of northern India threw their arms around trees designated to be cut down. Within a few years, this tactic, also known as tree satyagraha, had spread across India, ultimately forcing reforms in forestry and a moratorium on tree felling in Himalayan regions.
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Photo: The village women of the Chipko movement in the early 70’s in the Garhwal Hills of India, protecting the trees from being cut down.
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Morning dew on a dandelion, Taraxacum erythrospermum, looks exactly like a snowflake.
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This tree is found in the church grounds..
photographer by @carlettodelmonaco
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“Never say there is nothing Beautiful in the World anymore. There is always something to make you Wonder in the shape of a Tree.”?
― Albert Schweitzer
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Pistachio Tree growing from solid rock, Iran
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?Winter Tree ID?
It is that time of year when learning how to identify trees in winter is at its best. Whilst the leaves maybe off the trees you can still use features such as buds to learn which tree is which.
The buds of trees are quite distinctive from species to species, so we have produced a FREE ID sheet for you to use when you are out and about on your next walk, to help learn some of the commoner species here in the U.K.
Why not see how many of them you can spot….
This sheet only covers deciduous trees, we are planning a coniferous ID sheet later this year.
The sheet which can be downloaded and printed to A3 can be found on our resources page by following this link, https://www.discoverthewild.co.uk/resources
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Wisteria tree, Japan??
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Whispering White..
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Rainbow Gum Tree, NSW, Australia
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Silk shadows..
House in Inistioge hugged by wisteria, Ireland
225-million-year-old petrified opal tree trunk located in Arizona
This path of frozen bamboo
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Nadine Foster-Day
Guanacaste Tree, National Symbol of Costa Rica.
Maha Asmar El Khoury shared her first post.
The Sisters Olive Trees of Noah are a grove of sixteen olive trees in Bcheale – Lebanon ??
They are estimated to be over 6,000 years old!
Michael Eli Sergbor
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This tree is over 100yrs, located in Ghana in the eastern region anum to be precise….still living, still growing no matter the intensity of erosion.
Vijay Amirtharaj
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No leaves, only parrots
Robert Magee
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Argan Tree, Morocco
Precious oil from the seeds of the tree
Precious treat for the goats
Ahifa Kadidja
Pachypodium Mikea
Madagascar.
Robert Magee
Tree growing in an abandoned silo
JD England
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Tree House built from Wood pallets and leftover boards
The nearly 12,000-acre park was established in 1982 and is part of the larger Wulingyuan Scenic and Historic Interest Area. A visit to Zhangjiajie can seem like a visit to a mythical world. The local fauna only add to the park’s mystique, for among the stealthy inhabitants of this unusual ecosystem is the clouded leopard, a rare wild cat that is considered an evolutionary link between smaller cats, such as the lynx, and the big cats like lions and tigers.
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World Beauties and Wonders
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Imagine you’re living in a tree house.
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Yin and Yang in their tree nest…
Known by many names, the most famous being The Paperbark Cherry, Tibetan Cherry or Latin for Prunus Serrula. It’s is an ornamental flowering deciduous shrub tree that can grow to a height of 20-30 feet. Native to China. It’s captivating and majestic high gloss, coppery-brown bark, heavily banded with bumpy lines (dull lenticels). In the fall the tree showcases red berrries with the foliage warming up to a golden-yellow color before shedding for the winter. By spring time it emerges with tiny white flowers in small clusters.