Amazing Trees

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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