Some Unusual Trees
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Some Unusual Trees
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#2The 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?).
https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2025/08/ancient-yew-tr...
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#3Related and also interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individual_trees
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#4On 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.
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#5Wasn't sure which kind of trees to expect. :D
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#6Wasn't sure which kind of trees to expect. :D
I was expecting something closer to Van Emde Boas trees. :D
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#7On 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.
Can do it on Ironfox Android (quite a forbidding browser) without problems. Not even JavaScript is allowed here.
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#8The 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?). https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2025/08/ancient-yew-tr...
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.
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#9The traveller tree looked the most interesting, like a peacock's feather.
https://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2017/12/12/the-travel...
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#10In Calabria — the very south of Italy — there this[0] 1000-years-old plane tree.