The following is a list of individual trees.
Tree
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s listed here are regarded as important or specific by their historical, national, locational, natural or mythological context. The list includes actual
tree
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s located throughout the world, as well as
trees from myths and religions.
Africa
Living
Historical
Asia
Living
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Europe
Living
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North America
Living
Historical
Petrified
Christmas trees
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Anthem Christmas tree, the tallest
Christmas tree
A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen pinophyta, conifer, such as a spruce, pine or fir, associated with the celebration of Christmas. It may also consist of an artificial tree of similar appearance.
The custom was deve ...
in the United States, erected annually at the
Outlets at Anthem outside Phoenix, Arizona.
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Boston Christmas Tree. Since 1971, given to Boston by the people of
Nova Scotia
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in thanks for their assistance during the 1917
Halifax Explosion. Located in the
Boston Common.
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Capitol Christmas Tree, the tree erected annually on the West Front Lawn of the
United States Capitol
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, in Washington, D.C.
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Chicago Christmas Tree, the annual tree located in
Millennium Park
Millennium Park is a public park located in the Chicago Loop, Loop Community areas of Chicago, community area of Chicago, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. The park, opened in July 2004, is a prominent civic center near t ...
in the city of Chicago. Historically, the tree was located in
Grant Park and
Daley Plaza.
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Grove Christmas Tree, a 100-foot tree that is lit every year at
The Grove at Farmer's Market in Los Angeles, California.
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Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, a
Christmas tree
A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen pinophyta, conifer, such as a spruce, pine or fir, associated with the celebration of Christmas. It may also consist of an artificial tree of similar appearance.
The custom was deve ...
on display every December in
Rockefeller Center, New York City.
South America
Living
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Petrified
Oceania
Living
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Mythological and religious trees
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Bodhi Tree, under which Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher and founder of
Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddhadharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and List of philosophies, philosophical tradition based on Pre-sectarian Buddhism, teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or ...
later known as
Gautama Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha (),*
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was a śramaṇa, wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist lege ...
, achieved enlightenment (also called Bodhi).
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World Tree
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Égig érő fa, the "Tree Reaching into the Sky" of Hungarian folk art and a folk tale type
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Irminsul
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Jievaras, the World tree in
Lithuanian mythology
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.
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Yggdrasil, the World Tree in the
Old Norse religion
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.
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Cutting of the elm, a legendary event concerning a tree at
Gisors
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Gisors, together with the ...
.
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Cypress of Kashmar, planted by
Zoroaster
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and felled by
Caliph Al Mutawakkil.
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Man-eating tree
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Oak of Mamre
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Thor's Oak, a sacred tree to the ancient
Germanic tribe of the
Chatti
The Chatti (also Chatthi or Catti) were an ancient Germanic tribe
whose homeland was near the upper Weser (''Visurgis'') river. They lived in central and northern Hesse and southern Lower Saxony, along the upper reaches of that river and in ...
.
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Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, from
Christianity
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and
Judaism
Judaism () is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic, Monotheism, monotheistic, ethnic religion that comprises the collective spiritual, cultural, and legal traditions of the Jews, Jewish people. Religious Jews regard Judaism as their means of o ...
.
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Tree of Life
The tree of life is a fundamental archetype in many of the world's mythology, mythological, religion, religious, and philosophy, philosophical traditions. It is closely related to the concept of the sacred tree.Giovino, Mariana (2007). ''The ...
, from Christianity and Judaism.
*The
Lote Tree
*The
Zaqqum Tree
See also
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European Tree of the Year
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In general
* ''European'', an adjective referring to something of, from, or related to Europe
** Ethnic groups in Europe
** Demographics of Europe
** European cuisine, the cuisines of Europe and other We ...
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Tree of the Year (United Kingdom)
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List of superlative trees
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List of oldest trees
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List of long-living organisms
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List of elm trees
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List of largest giant sequoias
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List of named ''Eucalyptus'' trees
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List of banyan trees in India
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List of individual trees in Estonia
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List of Great British Trees
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Great Trees of London
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List of Champion Trees (South Africa)
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Gerichtslinde
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List of hanging trees
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List of tallest trees
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List of tree genera
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Veteran tree
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Bonsai
Bonsai (; , ) is the Japanese art of Horticulture, growing and shaping miniature trees in containers, with a long documented history of influences and native Japanese development over a thousand years, and with unique aesthetics, cultural hist ...
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Capitol Christmas Tree
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Living Heritage Tree Museum
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National Christmas Tree (United States)
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Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
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Vatican Christmas Tree
References
External links
Map of this list(in progress)
World’s first tree reconstructed385 million-year-old tree
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