List of famous trees

Physical

• Assattha, a Bodhi tree under which Buddha is supposed to have been enlightened, at Bodh Gaya, India
• the General Grant tree, the official Christmas tree of the United States, a giant sequoia, in Sequoia National Park, California, USA
• the General Sherman tree, the world's largest tree, a giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park, California, USA
• the Gernikako Arbola, an oak representing the Basque people, at Guernica, Basque Country, Spain
• the Guilty Chinese Scholartree, located in Jingshan park, on which Emperor Chong Zhen hanged himself shortly after escaping the Forbidden City in Beijing, China (deceased and later replaced by a replica)
• the Tree of Hippocrates, the plane tree under which Hippocrates is supposed to have taught, on the island of Kos, Greece
• Kiidk'yaas, a rare golden spruce sacred to the Haida, on Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, Canada
• Liberty Tree at Boston, Massachusetts
• Major Oak, an ancient oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England
• Merlin's Oak at Carmarthen, Wales
• Methuselah, the oldest known living organism (approximately 4,700 years), a bristlecone pine in California
• Royal Oak, the tree in which King Charles II hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651, located in Boscobel, England (deceased and replaced by a replica).
• Treaty Oak, in Austin, Texas
• Tyburn Tree, the name given to a gallows which stood in London, England between 1571 and 1783. The name is derived from elm trees which stood near the site, which was used as a place of execution before the construction of the gallows.
• Charter Oak in which the Connecticut charter was hidden from Andros
• Shakespeare's mulberry tree at New Place, Stratford-on-Avon, cut down in the mid-18th century and fashioned into mementos.
• Angel Oak on Johns Island, near Charleston, South Carolina is estimated at 1400 years of age. It is threatened by nearby development.
• Big Tree at Geneseo, New York, a giant tree on the Genesee River, reported by some as an elm by others as an oak, was the site of the 1797 Treaty of Big Tree between Robert Morris and the Seneca tribe to sell most of western New York, also known as The Holland Purchase. It was washed away in a flood in the mid 19th century.

Mythological and religious

• Tree of Knowledge (Christianity and Judaism)
• Tree of Life (Christianity and Judaism)
• Yggdrasil (Norse religion)
• Tree of Jesse, from which the Cross was made, in medieval Christian legend.

Fictional

• Avendesora and Avendoraldera from Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time
• The Giving Tree, in the book of that title by Shel Silverstein
• The One Tree from Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
• White Tree of Gondor from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Telperion and Laurelin, the Two Trees of Valinor, from The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

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