What are the most unusual and amazing trees in the world? Where do they grow? How many live? How are they different? It turned out amazing tree on the planet a lot. I would like to mention the most - the most of them.
Baobab of Malvaceae family - one of the most amazing trees. Baobab diameter can reach more than ten meters - a record among the trees.
The height of the tree can reach 30 meters. Since year-old rings also, the exact age of the trees is difficult to establish. It is believed that their age is not less than a thousand years. The tree is very hardy if to tear him bark - narastet new, if a tree falls to the ground and at least one root is in the ground - the tree will continue to live and grow.
This amazing tree growing in Africa, Australia, and on tropical islands. In the rainy season Baobab wood absorbs water like a sponge. During the dry season, the tree uses the accumulated water and throws off all the foliage. The local population uses a vengeance Baobab - make temporary shelters, pantries, tanks for water storage.
From the biggest arrange such facilities as a prison, sauna, restaurant, bus station. Fruits, seeds, wood, leaves - everything is in motion, something to eat, something to use for production.
Sequoia from the cypress family - one of the tallest trees in the world. The height of the tree may exceed 110 meters, the age of more than three and a half thousand years, and the diameter can be more than seven meters.
Sequoia - an evergreen plant that likes humidity, tree bark absorbs it like a sponge. The bark is thick enough, to thirty cm, red-brown color.
The wood of the tree is valued for its properties - it is light, porous, does not rot, is easily processed. Surprisingly, reproduction tree occurs through tiny seeds (3 mm in diameter), which are up to 200 - 300, each with a small cone.
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Sequoia grows in California and British Columbia.
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Dragon tree from the family Iglitsevyeh - is also one of the most amazing trees. The size of the tree is not large - to a height of 20 meters and a diameter of 4 meters.
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Age of the tree can reach a few thousand years, or rather can not be determined, the tree is also no annual rings. The tree trunk whimsical branches, each branch ends with a tuft of long, narrow leaves.
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Resin tree - red, it has been used since ancient times for medicinal purposes.
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Locals believed the sacred dragon trees, they are often arranged in the hollows of their large altars. These amazing trees grow in Africa and South - East Asia.
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Due to their slow growth, and grow them at home.
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