Gu Guanyin Temple’s 1,400-Year-Old Ginkgo Tree near Xi’an, China
Every late autumn, a ginkgo tree said to be more than 1,400 years old turns the courtyard of the Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple, in the Zhongnan...
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Trees: Stories & Places to Explore
Visit Angel Oak on Johns Island near Charleston, understand its estimated age and enjoy the remarkable branches without disturbing the tree. Understand Morocco’s tree-climbing goats and argan traditions, with a closer look at the landscape, oil-making knowledge and respectful ways to explore.
Start with Angel Oak, Charleston: The Tree, Its Age and Your Visit and Morocco’s Argan Trees and Goats: The Story Beyond the Photo.
Beth Moon's Ancient Trees: Platinum Portraits of the World's Oldest Trees
Beth Moon has travelled across the United States, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa to photograph some of the oldest and largest tree...
Remarkable Trees of the World: 16 Giants, Blossoms and Tree Avenues
Some trees are famous for their age, some for their colour and some for the roads they frame. These sixteen remarkable trees and tree lands...
Tree Roots Breaking Through Concrete: Why They Lift Paving and Walls
A street tree sends its roots out through a grid of paving bricks; on a city wall, a root system spreads across the stone like a giant drawi...
Great Banyan Tree of Howrah: India’s Giant One-Tree Forest
The Great Banyan in Howrah, across the Hooghly River from Kolkata, looks like a small forest of grey trunks under one green roof. It is in f...
Morocco’s Tree-Climbing Goats: Argan Trees, Argan Oil and Where to See Them
Drive the roads of south-western Morocco between Marrakech, Essaouira and Agadir and you may see something that looks like a trick photo: a ...
Sunland Baobab: South Africa's Tree Bar, Its Age and Its Collapse
For more than two decades the Sunland Baobab in Limpopo, South Africa, was famous for a pub inside its trunk. Doug and Heather Van Heerden o...
Rainbow Eucalyptus: Why Eucalyptus deglupta Bark Turns Every Colour
The rainbow eucalyptus, Eucalyptus deglupta, looks as if someone has painted its trunk in vertical strokes of lime green, blue, purple, oran...
Angel Oak Tree on Johns Island: Age, Size, History and How to Visit
Angel Oak is a Southern live oak on Johns Island, just outside Charleston, South Carolina, and one of the most famous trees in America. It s...