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1 Real forests and individual trees 1.1 Africa 1.1.1 Living 1.1.2 Historical 1.2 Asia 1.2.1 Living 1.2.2 Historical 1.3 Europe 1.3.1 Living 1.3.2 Historical 1.3.3 Petrified 1.4 North America 1.4.1 Living 1.4.2 Historical 1.4.3 Petrified 1.4.4 Other 1.5 Central America 1.5.1 Living 1.6 South America 1.6.1 Living 1.7 Oceania 1.7.1 Living 1.7.2 Historical 2 Mythological and religious 3 Fictional 4 See also 5 References 6 External links From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The following is a list of notable trees from around the world. Trees listed here are regarded as important or specific by its historical, national, locational, natural or mythological context. The list includes actual trees located throughout the world, as well as trees from myths and trees from fiction. Africa Living List of trees - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trees 1 of 34 1/5/2017 1:04 PM
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1 Real forests and individual trees1.1 Africa

1.1.1 Living1.1.2 Historical

1.2 Asia1.2.1 Living1.2.2 Historical

1.3 Europe1.3.1 Living1.3.2 Historical1.3.3 Petrified

1.4 North America1.4.1 Living1.4.2 Historical1.4.3 Petrified1.4.4 Other

1.5 Central America1.5.1 Living

1.6 South America1.6.1 Living

1.7 Oceania1.7.1 Living1.7.2 Historical

2 Mythological and religious3 Fictional4 See also5 References6 External links

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The following is a list of notable trees from around the world. Trees listed here are regarded as important orspecific by its historical, national, locational, natural or mythological context. The list includes actual treeslocated throughout the world, as well as trees from myths and trees from fiction.

Africa

Living

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Name Species Location Age Significance

Lost Tree Acacia Sahara desert - A very isolated tree and important landmark

The Cotton Tree KapokFreetown,Sierra Leone

-

Historic symbol of Freetown.

Wonderboomtree in Pretoria

Wonderboom, afig tree

Pretoria, SouthAfrica

-

A sprawling fig tree inPretoria, South Africa.

Drago Milenario Dracaena dracoIcod de losVinos, Tenerife

-

Has been a local touristattraction for more than ahundred years (mentioned byAlexander von Humboldt, forinstance).

Sunland BaobabAdansoniadigitata

LimpopoProvince, SouthAfrica23°37′16″S

30°11′53″E

1060A giant and ancient baobab tree, with a pub in thehollow.

Historical

Name Species Location Age Significance

Arbre duTénéré

AcaciaSahara desert17°45′00″N

10°04′00″E

A very isolated tree in the Sahara desert,notable before 1934, in Niger, destroyed in1973.

Asia

Living

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Name Species LocationAge

(years)Notes

Sisters OliveTrees of Noah

oliveBcheale, BatrounDistrict, Lebanon

Some claim these are the oldest living trees onearth. Legends refer to these trees as the sourceof the olive branch in the Genesis flood

narrative.[1][2][3][4]

Cedars of GodLebanoncedar

Lebanon34°14′37″N

36°02′54″E

-

A small forest(approximately 400,000

square feet (37,000 m2)) ofabout 400 Lebanon cedarsat about 2,300 meters above

sea level in the mountains of northernLebanon. The cedars of Lebanon arementioned in the Bible over 70 times and usedas symbols of the Messiah, and they wereprized by historical figures such as Herod,Alexander, and Julius Caesar. They also have amention in the Epic of Gilgamesh

The GreatBanyan

BanyanBotanical gardennear Kolkata,India

-

A clonal colony of IndianBanyan with a crowncircumference of over 330meters.

Balete treeOISCA Farm inCanlaon City,Philippines

1,300

The over 1,300-year-old balete tree (related tobanyan trees) located in is probably the oldestknown tree in the country as estimated by

botanists from Silliman University.[5]

Hibakujumoku Various Hiroshima, Japan170 trees that survived the atomic bombing ofHiroshima

Jaya Sri MahaBodhi

Sacred figAnuradhapura, SriLanka

2300

A sacred fig propagatedfrom the Bodhi tree underwhich Lord Buddhabecame enlightened. It was

planted in 288 BC.[6]

Jōmon Sugi SugiYakushima island,Japan

-

Ancient specimen

-

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Great sugi ofKayano

CryptomeriaKaga, IshikawaPrefecture, Japan

2,300

GinkgoSungkyunkwanUniversity, Seoul,South Korea

500 A pair of ginkgo trees

Big BanyanTree

BanyanRamohalli,Bangalore, India

400

Tree of Life Mesquite Bahrain 400

Chankiri Tree(Killing tree)

CambodianKilling Fields

-

A tree in the Killing Fieldsagainst which children andinfants were slung to killthem.

The Ying KePine

Huangshan, China -

Ying Ke, meaning"Welcoming-Guests" pineon Huangshan.

Tembusu

SingaporeBotanicalGardens,Singapore

100The tree is featured on the reverse of a $5Singapore note.

MethuselahJudean datepalm

Israel

The formerly extinct treewas sprouted from a 2,000-year-old seed.

ThimmammaMarrimanu

Banyan

25 km fromKadiri, Anantapurdistrict, AndhraPradesh, India

According to Guinness Book of Records(1989), the world's biggest Banyan Tree,

spreading over 11 acres (4 hectares).[7]

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Name Species LocationAge

(years)Notes

AlishanSacred Tree

CypressAlishan trainstation, Taiwan

3,000 The tree fell on July 1, 1997.

The Bodhitree

Sacred figBodh Gaya, India24°41′45.29″N

84°59′29.29″E

The tree under which Buddha obtainedenlightenment. The current tree at the site is areplacement.

GuiltyChineseScholartree

Jingshan park39°55′23.22″N

116°23′33.64″E

The tree on which the ChongzhenEmperor hanged himself shortlyafter escaping the Forbidden Cityin Beijing, China. The originaltree died and was replaced by areplica.

Changi TreeSindorawallichii?

Singapore

A historical visual landmark located in Singapore.Thought to be a specimen of Sindora wallichii, withan estimated height of 75 metres (246 ft), it wasfelled with explosive charges during the SecondWorld War to prevent its use as a ranging aide by theapproaching Japanese artillery.

Dry tree Platanus

Norther Persia,possibly Tabrizor somewhere inKhorasan

According to a legend, the solitary Dry tree markedthe spot of a great battle between Alexander theGreat and Darius. Later recorded by Marco Polo.

The LonePine

GallipoliPeninsula,Turkey

A solitary tree which marked thesite of the Battle of Lone Pine in1915.

TheKalayaanTree

Siar tree,Peltophorumpterocarpum

MalolosCathedral,Bulacan,Philippines

The Kalayaan Tree (Tree ofFreedom), located near the frontof the Minor Basilica of Our Ladyof Immaculate Conception in thehistoric city of Malolos, Bulacan,

Philippines. The siar tree was planted by Gen. EmilioAguinaldo during a lull in the Malolos Convention.Under the tree is a monument symbolizing themeeting of Filipino revolutionaries represented bystatues of Gregorio del Pilar and Gen. Isidoro Torres;Don Pablo Tecson, a legislator; Padre MarianoSevilla, a nationalist leader of the church and Doña

Basilia Tantoco, a woman freedom fighter.[8][9]

KannimaraTeak

TeakParambikulamWildlife

One of the oldest and largest living teak trees. It hada girth of 6.52 metres (21.4 ft) and a height of 48.25

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Sanctuary,Kerala, India

metres (158.3 ft) when the measurement was taken in2003.

Korean DMZ

A tree within the Korean DMZwas the focus of the Axe MurderIncident, in which two UnitedStates Army officers were killedby North Korean soldiers. The

killings led to Operation Paul Bunyan, named for thelegendary lumberjack. The tree was eventually cutdown under the watch of over 800 soldiers.

Ginkgo

TsurugaokaHachiman-gū,Kamakura,KanagawaPrefecture, Japan

1,000

The ancient tree was uprooted in astorm in 2010.

Europe

Living

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Name Species LocationAge

(years)Notes

Old TjikkoNorwayspruce

Sweden61°35′N 12°40′E

9,550

The oldest knownindividual clonal tree inthe world.

Stara MaslinaOleaeuropaea(olive)

Bar, Montenegro 2240

BallyconnellYew

Yew

Grounds ofBallyconnell House,Annagh townland,County Cavan, Ireland

2,000Ancient tree reckoned to be well over2,000 years old with a massive girth.

Scots pine

Urho KekkonenNational Park,Lapland (Finland),Finland

770Considered one of the oldest trees inFinland. Probably the oldest Scots pine inthe world.

Fortingall Yew YewChurchyard of thevillage of Fortingall inPerthshire, Scotland

Various estimates have put its age atbetween 2,000 and 5,000 years.

FlorencecourtYew

Irish Yew

Florence Court estatenear Enniskillen,Fermanagh, NorthernIreland

277

Replanted in 1740 as a sapling. Followingcommercial propagation of the tree after1820, it is believed that the majority ofIrish Yews outside Ireland are derivedfrom this one tree.

Caesarsboom(Caesar's Tree)

Yew Lo, Belgium

Noted for the legendthat Julius Caesartethered his horse to itduring his conquest ofthe region.

YewEstry, Normandy,France

> 1,600Considered one of the oldest trees inFrance. Its hollow trunk can contain 30people.

YewsLa Haye-de-Routot,Normandy, France

~ 1,500A chapel with a door was designed in oneof them.

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Forest swastika Larch Zernikow, Germany.A patch of carefully arranged larch treescovering a 60-yard (55 m) square area ofpine forest.

The Old Elm Field ElmCenter of Sliven,Bulgaria

The Old Elm won the 2014 European Treeof the Year Award. The tree has sat in thecenter of Sliven for 1100 years, serving asa gathering point and a historical parker. It

is also part of the city coat of arms.[10]

Granit Oak OakGranit village nearStara Zagora, Bulgaria

1,650

One of the oldest trees in Europe,estimated to be about 1,650 years old. Itscrown spread covers an area of 1,017square metres, its girth is 7.45 m, and itsheight is 23.4 m.

Bartek Oak 650-670

A famous tree inPoland, visited bykings, said to be about1,200 years old(actually 650–670

years according to recent studies). It is 30m tall, 13.5 m in girth near the ground,with a crown spread of 40 m.

GernikakoArbola

OakGuernica, BasqueCountry, Spain

An oak representingthe Basque people

QueenElizabeth Oak

Oak

Royal Palace ofHatfield,Hertfordshire,England

800–1000

Said to be the locationwhere Elizabeth I ofEngland was told shewas queen in 1558.

Kongeegen (theKing Oak)

Pedunculateoak

Jægerspris Nordskov,Sjælland, Denmark;

1,200

The oldest tree inDenmark.

Chêne chapelle OakAllouville-Bellefosse,Normandy, France

1,200

An 800- to 1,200-year-old pedunculateoak, under which William the Conqueroris to have stopped, according to a locallegend. There are two chapels inside.

Poltava Oak Oak Poltava, Ukraine 600An oak under which tsar Peter I rested atthe Battle of Poltava in 1709.

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YewStoke Gabrielchurchyard Devon,England

Said to be the oldest tree in England.

Major OakPedunculateoak

Sherwood Forest,Nottinghamshire,England

800

The most famous andmost visited tree ofGreat Britain. About800 years old, with agirth at breast height of

10.5 m.

Ivenack OakPedunculateoak

Ivenack,Mecklenburg-WesternPomerania, Germany

800

A huge and ancientPedunculate oakthought to be about 800years old, 35 m tall, 11m in girth at breastheight and 16.5 m nearthe ground. The largestoak in Germany and (inwood volume)

probably in Europe.

Baikushev'spine

Bosnianpine

Pirin mountains nearBansko, Bulgaria

1,300

An ancient treeestimated to be 1,300years old. It is one ofthe oldest trees ofBulgaria and stands 24m tall with a girth of6.9 m at breast height.

Stelmužė OakPedunculateoak

Stelmužė, Zarasaidistrict, Lithuania

1,500

Measures a girth atbreast height of 9.58 mand 13 m near theground. The oldest treein Lithuania and the

Baltic States.

Chestnut Treeof One HundredHorses

ChestnutSant'Alfio, the easternslope of Mount Etna,Italy

Probably the world'soldest and largestchestnut.

Bialbero deCasorzo (GranaDouble Tree)

Grana, Piemont, Italy

a tree which grows in ahollow tree near Grana,Piemont, Italy [1]

(http://atlasobscura.com/places/grana-double-tree)

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Le Gros chênede Liernu (thebig oak ofLiernu)

Oak15 north from Namur,Belgium

900

Known as the oldestoak in Belgium. It isestimated at certainly800 or 900 years old,maybe more than 1,000years.

The Oaks ofRogalin

OakRogalin, GreaterPoland

Thousand-year-oldtrees named after thethree mythic foundersof the Slavic nations.

The Olive treeof Vouves

Olive tree

Village of AnoVouves, Kolymvari,Chania regional unit,Crete, Greece.

2,000

It is confirmed to be at least 2000 yearsold based on tree ring analysis, but it isclaimed to be between 3000–4000 yearsold.

Mulberry of thePatriarchate ofPeć

Mulberry Peje, Kosovo. 800

One of the oldest verified living trees inSerbia, located in the courtyard of thechurch complex of the Patriarchate ofPeje. It was brought from the Shām regionby Archbishop Saint Sava II during hispilgrimage to the Holy Land and plantedbetween 1263 and 1272.

Old Oak OakExactly 100 km fromBelgrade, Serbia, nextto E-75 highway.

600

Koča's oak near Jagodina, Serbia Named after Koča Anđelković.

Veliki Popovacoak

Village of VelikiPopovac, Serbia

Plane tree atMiloš'sResidence

Plane tree Belgrade, Serbia The oldest plane tree in Belgrade.

Flower Squareoak

Belgrade, SerbiaAround two centuries old, the lastremaining of the forest that covered thearea.

Brian Boru'sOak

OakRaheen Woods,County Clare, Ireland

A reputedly 1000-year-old oak treeplanted by Brian Boru, Last King ofIreland.

Pi de les TresBranques

Pine Catalonia, SpainRegarded as symbolising the unity of theCatalan countries

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Midland Oak OakLeamington Spa,Warwickshire,England

Reputed to mark thecentre of England

NajevnikLinden Tree

Small-leaved Lime

Najevnik Farm inLudranski Vrh,Municipality of Črnana Koroškem,northern Slovenia

The tree with thelargest girth inSlovenia (10.70 meters;its height is 24 m).Estimated to be 700years old. Thetraditional meetingplace of Slovene

politicians and a cultural venue.

Tamme-Laurioak

OakUrvaste Parish, VõruCounty

690

Thickest and oldest treein Estonia.

Viiralti Oak OakVana-Võidu village inViljandi Parish

400

Known from thegraphic work of EduardWiiralt from 1943

Orissaarestadium oak

OakOrissaare, SaareCounty

Grows in the middle ofOrissaare stadium.European Tree of the Year2015

King's Pine Scots pineJärvselja village,Meeksi Parish

380

This pine has height of 33

m and volume of 11,5 m3

(1999)

Kelchi linden Linden Tallinn 360Named after pastor Christian Kelch whowas buried under the linden in 1710

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Name Species LocationAge

(years)Notes

Anne FrankTree

horse-chestnut tree

City center ofAmsterdam,Netherlands52°22′30.7″N

4°53′4.7″E

Featured in Anne Frank's TheDiary of a Young Girl. The treewas destroyed in a gale in the latesummer of 2010.

Merlin's OakCarmarthen,Wales

GlastonburyThorn

hawthornReputed to have been planted by Joseph ofArimathea.

Thor's Oak Oaka tree sacred to the Germanic tribe of the Chatti,ancestors of the Hessians.

Sacred tree atUppsala

Temple atUppsala,Sweden was asacred tree

Venerated by Norse pagans, still extant in the secondhalf of the 11th century.

Royal OakPedunculateoak

Boscobel,England

King Charles II hid in the tree to escape theRoundheads following the Battle of Worcester in1651. The tree deceased and is replaced by adescendant.

Shakespeare'smulberry tree

mulberry

New Place,Stratford-upon-Avon,England

Cut down in the mid-18th century and fashioned intomementos.

Tree ofHippocrates

Orientalplane

Kos, GreeceThe tree under which Hippocrates is supposed tohave taught.

Red Forest PinesChernobylNuclear PowerPlant, Ukraine

Formerly the Worm Wood Forest, refers to the trees

growing in the 10 km2 surrounding the ChernobylNuclear Power Plant and is one of several of theChernobyl disaster effects on April 26, 1986. Thename 'Red Forest' comes from the ginger browncolour of the pine trees after they died following theabsorption of high levels of radiation.

Danger TreeBeaumont-Hamel, France

Marks the area of highest casualties suffered by theRoyal Newfoundland Regiment during their attack atBeaumont Hamel during the Battle of the Somme.The current 'tree' is a concrete replica, howevergrowth around the replica may be from the same rootsystem as the original tree.

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Takovo bush Oak Takovo, SerbiaTree under which Miloš Obrenović started theSecond Serbian Uprising.

Pine of TsarDušan

Bosnianpine

Uroševac,Serbia

663Planted in 1336 by Tsar Dušan, destroyed byAlbanian extremists in 1999.

Poplar ofHorror

PoplarDonja Gradina,Bosnia andHerzegovina

Used for mass executions of inmates of theJasenovac concentration camp.

Petrified

Name Species Location Age Notes

Petrified Forest of Lesvos Lesvos, Greece

North America

Living

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Name Species Location Age Notes

Allen Russell Giant sequoiaBalch Park, TulareCounty, California,US

The 33rd largest tree worldwide,named in dedication to park rangerAllen I. Russell.

Angel OakSouthern liveoak

Johns Island, SouthCarolina, nearCharleston, SouthCarolina, US32°43′4″N 80°4′46″W

1,400

It stands 66.5 ft(20 m) tall,measures 28 ft(8.5 m) incircumference, and

produces shade that covers 17,200

square feet (1,600 m2). Its longestbranch distance is 187 ft.The tree andsurrounding park have been owned bythe neighboring city of Charlestonsince 1991.

Árbol del TuleMoctezumaCypress

Santa María delTule, Oaxaca,Mexico17°02′47.4″N

96°38′10″W

1,433-1,600years (est)

The stoutest tree inthe world. Itstrunk has acircumference of42.0 m (137.8 ft),

equating to a diameter of 14.05 m(46.1 ft). In 2001 it was placed on aUNESCO tentative list of WorldHeritage Sites.

El Arbolito(The LittleTree)

Managua,Nicaragua

A traditional landmark used to givedirections in Managua.

Gloomy NightTree (Árbol dela NocheTriste)

Tacuba, MexicoCity, Mexico

An old tree where Hernán Cortésallegedly mourned after beingexpelled from Tenochtitlan beforetaking the city by force.

The BanyanTree

BanyanLahaina, Hawaii20.886111°N

156.674722°W

~150Planted in the 1860s, it covers anentire city block in the waterfront inLahaina.

BennettJuniper

Juniper

Stanislaus NationalForest, TuolumneCounty, CaliforniaUS38°18′32″N

119°47′49.56″W

2,000-6,000(est)The largest known Juniper in theUnited States.

The Big Oak OakThomasville,Georgia, US

One of the oldest Live Oak trees eastof the Mississippi river.

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The Big Tree -Goose Island

Rockport, Texas,US

Texas' largest tree, located in GooseIsland State Park.

Bogey's TreePacific Palisades,California, US

A tree on the 12th hole at RivieraCountry Club, named after HumphreyBogart.

BoyingtonOak

Southern liveoak

Mobile, Alabama,US

181

Reportedly grew from the grave ofCharles Boyington in the potter's fieldjust outside the walls of Church StreetGraveyard. Boyington was tried andexecuted for the murder of his friend,Nathaniel Frost, on February 20,1835. He stated that a tree wouldspring from his grave as proof of his

innocence.[11][12]

ButtonballTree

Americansycamore

Sunderland, MA,US 42°28′07.83″N72°34′42.14″W

350-400 (est)

Large tourist attraction of the town;the tree is believed to be the largesttree of its kind on the East Coast, oras locals put it, "The widest tree thisside of the Mississippi."

Candler OakTree

Oak Savannah, Georgia ~300

A GeorgiaLandmark andHistoric Tree. It isowned by theSavannah Law

School which protects the tree withfences and security surveillance. Thetree serves as the law school’s logo.

ChandelierTree

CoastRedwood

Leggett, California ~2,000

A Coast redwoodwith a passage forcars cut through. Itis 276-foot (84 m)high and 16-foot(4.9 m) ft. indiameter. Thename "Chandelier

Tree" comes from its unique limbsthat resemble a chandelier.

Circus Trees CaliforniaA group of trees shaped into artisticforms by arborist Axel Erlandson

ComfortMaple

Sugar maplePelham, Ontario,Canada

500A 24.5-metre (80 ft) tall,approximately 500-year-old Sugarmaple.

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Council OakTree

Oak Hollywood, Florida

A historic oak treeon the HollywoodSeminole IndianReservation thatwas added to the

National Register of Historic Placesin 2012.

Creek CouncilOak Tree

White oakTulsa, Oklahoma,US

A large oak treemarking thefounding of Tulsaby the LochapokaClan of the Creek

Nation in 1836. Listed in the NationalRegister of Historic Places.

Davie Poplar Tulip poplarChapel Hill, NorthCarolina, US

300-375

A large tree on the campus of theUniversity of North Carolina atChapel Hill, it was named in honor ofRevolutionary War general andfounder of the University WilliamRichardson Davie. Many legends areassociated with the tree.

Devil's Tree OakBernardsTownship, NewJersey, US

The tree is said tobe cursed. Locallegend says thosewho damage ordisrespect the treewill soon

thereafter come to some sort of harm,often in the form of a car accident ormajor breakdown as they leave.

Duffie OakMobile, Alabama,US

300

It is estimated tobe at least 300years old and has acircumference of30 feet 11 inches

(9.42 m), a height of 48 feet (15 m)and a spread of 126 feet (38 m).Scholars consider it to be the oldest

living landmark in the city.[13][14]

EmancipationOak

Southern liveoak

Hampton, Virginia,US

On the campus ofHamptonUniversity, it is 98feet (30 m) indiameter, with

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branches which extend upward aswell as laterally. It is designated oneof the 10 Great Trees of the World bythe National Geographic Society andis part of the National HistoricLandmark district of HamptonUniversity.

Endicott PearTree

European PearDanvers,Massachusetts, US

about 375

Planted byMassachusetts BayColony GovernorJohn Endecott inthe 1630s or

1640s, this tree is believed to be theoldest cultivated fruit tree in NorthAmerica.42°32′54″N 70°55′48″W

FriendshipOak

Southern liveoak

Long Beach,Mississippi, US

500

A large tree on theGulf Park campusof the Universityof SouthernMississippi, 59

feet (18 m) tall with a trunk diameterof 5.75 feet (1.75 m) andcircumference of 19.8 feet (6.0m).30°21′06.37″N 89°08′09.94″W

General Granttree

Giant SequoiaKings CanyonNational Park,California, US

The "Nation's Christmas Tree" of theUnited States,

GeneralSherman tree

Giant SequoiaSequoia NationalPark, California,US

2300-2700 The world's largest Giant Sequoia.

GoshinFoeminajunipers

Washington, D.C. ~65

A bonsai forestplanting of elevenjunipers donatedto the NationalBonsai Foundationin 1984, displayed

since at the United States NationalArboretum.

Grizzly Giant Giant SequoiaYosemite NationalPark, California,US

One of the oldest and largest GiantSequoias in Yosemite National Park

Hangman'sElm

English ElmManhattan, NewYork City, NY, US

~310The oldest known tree in Manhattan.Located in Washington Square Park,it stands 110 feet (33.52 m) tall and

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has a diameter of56 inches (1.42m).40.7319444444°N73.9986111111°W

Hare KrishnaTree

American ElmManhattan's EastVillage, New YorkCity, NY, US

The founding site of the Hare Krishnamovement in the United States.

Harris CreekSitka Spruce

Sitka spruce

Near the creek bedof Harris Creek, offthe Pacific MarineRoad between PortRenfrew, BC andHoneymoon Bay,BC on VancouverIsland, BritishColumbia48.67921°N

124.21418°W

At 4 metres (13 ft)

in diameter,[15] itis not the largestsitka spruce onVancouver Island,but is easilyaccessible due tothe paving of a

former logging road,[16] and hasbecome well-known: hikers going byon the Harris Creek Main trail arerecommended by trail guide books tomake a short detour to visit it. Can bereached by wheel-chair-accessibleshort trail from Pacific Marine Road,from small sign on right hand side ofroad going northeast, about 20 kmnorth-east of Port Renfrew, or 8 km

past Lizard Lake.[17] Logging in thisarea was permanently restricted by a

2012 vote.[15]

HyperionCoastRedwood

California, USAt 115.5 m tall the tallest tree in theworld, found in 2006.

InternationalWorld WarPeace Tree

Linden treeDarmstadt,Indiana, US

~100

A tree planted in by GermanAmerican immigrants, it wasdedicated at the end of World War Ias a reminder of Germany's armisticewith the United States and a sign ofloyalty to America.

IluvatarCoastRedwood

Prairie CreekRedwoods StatePark, near Orick,California, US

An arborist restingnext to the coastredwood Iluvatarin the spring of2008. The third

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largest known coa

JardineJuniper

RockyMountainjuniper

Logan Canyon,Cache NationalForest. Utah, US

~1500

Notable for itsage, it was namedafter USACalumnus andformer U.S.Secretary ofAgricultureWilliam MarionJardine.

Le Chêne àPapineau

Northern RedOak

Montebello,Quebec, Canada

Estimated 300 years old and 20 mtall, it is one of the oldest known treesin Quebec.

Linden Oak White oakNorth Bethesda,Maryland, US

~300

A large tree with aheight of 97 feet(30 m) and acrown spread of132 feet (40 m) asmeasured inFebruary 2008 bythe Maryland Big

Tree Program. 39.0227679167°N77.1022224444°W

Lone CypressMontereyCypress

Pebble Beach,California, US

~250

A dramaticallysituated tree, awestern icon, andconsidered one ofthe most

photographed trees in North America.36.568748°N 121.965339°W

Lost MonarchCoastRedwood

Jedediah SmithRedwoods StatePark, California,US

The world's fifthlargest coastredwood in termsof wood volumewith a 26 feet (7.9

m) diameter at breast height (withmultiple stems included), and 320feet (98 m) in height.

LunaCoastredwood

Humboldt County,California

600-1000

A 200 feet (61 m) tall redwood thatbecame notable when environmentalactivist Julia Butterfly Hill lived on aplatform in the tree for 738 days in1997-1999 to prevent it from beinglogged. In 2000, it was cut halfwaythrough with a chainsaw but has

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survived and has been braced forsupport. 40°26′18″N 124°3′10″W

BrooklynMagnolia

Magnoliagrandiflora

Brooklyn, NewYork City, NewYork, US

~130

An unusually largemagnoliagrandiflora for thelatitude. A NewYork Citydesignatedlandmark. The tree

was brought as a seedling from NorthCarolina and planted around 1885.

Man in Treesequoia

Sequoiasempervirens

Downtown SeattleThe site of a police standoff with amentally ill man

Marlboro Tree Black willowMarlboroTownship, NewJersey, US

The tree is about 152 years old andmeasures 76 feet (23 m) in height and19 ft 8 in (5.99 m) in circumference.Five grown people must hold handsto fully encircle the tree.

MethuselahGreat BasinBristleconePine

California, US 4,700A candidate for the oldest knownliving organism (approximately 4,700years)

Moon treesGrown from seeds taken into orbitaround the moon

Old Oak Tree White oak

Churchyard ofPresbyterianChurch in BaskingRidge, BaskingRidge, NJ

600

Nearly 100 feet (30 m) tall with aspread of more than 130 feet (40 m).Evangelical speakers woke up morethan 3,000 underneath in 1740.Watched over AmericanRevolutionary War events, survivednumerous hurricanes, but is failing tothrive in 2016.

El Palo AltoCoastRedwood

Palo Alto,California, US

A landmark that gave the city of PaloAlto its name. It stood up above itssurroundings in a wide flat area andthus could be seen from far away inall directions, as far back as 1769when Spanish explorers campedunderneath it. It is no longer asimpressive as it once was, having lostmore than 50 feet (15 m) since itsheight was measured at 162.2 feet(49.4 m) in 1814.

Pando (Latinfor "I spread")

QuakingAspen

Utah, USA Quaking Aspen colony in Utah, isthe oldest known clonal colony at

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possibly 80,000 years, and theheaviest at 6,000 tonnes.

PerryvilleTreeengravings

Perryville,Maryland, US

Trees carved by mentally ill veterans.

PinchotSycamore

Americansycamore

Simsbury,Connecticut, US

200-300+The largest tree in Connecticut, anancient sycamore named for GiffordPinchot.

Queens GiantTulip-tree(Liriodendrontulipifera)

Northeast Queens,New York|

350-450

The tree measures 40 metres (130 ft)tall and is 350–450 years old. It is theoldest living organism in the NewYork metropolitan area.

SantaBarbara'sMoreton BayFig Tree

Santa Barbara,California, US

~138

Seven SistersOak

Southern liveoak

Lewisberg,Louisiana, US

1,500

Believed to be nearly 1,500 years old.The tree has a girth of over 38 feet(12 m) and is the president of theLive Oak Society.

StratosphereGiant

CoastRedwood

California, US112.8 m tall, the tallest known tree inthe world until displaced byHyperion.

Survivor Tree American ElmOklahoma City,Oklahoma, US

Incorporated into the Oklahoma CityNational Memorial. Located acrossthe street from the Murrah FederalOffice Building, it survived theterrorist bombing in Oklahoma Cityon April 19, 1995.

Survivor Tree Callery PearNew York, NewYork, US

Survived the September 11 attacks onthe World Trade Center in 2001 andwas incorporated into the NationalSeptember 11 Memorial & Museum.

Treaty OakSouthern liveoak

Jacksonville,Florida, US

The Treaty Oak isan octopus-likeSouthern live oak(Quercusvirginiana) in

Jacksonville, Florida. It is estimatedto be 250 years old and is located inTreaty Oak Park in the Southbankarea of Downtown Jacksonville.

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The Tree ThatOwns Itself

White OakAthens, Georgia,US

"Son of..."planted Dec, 4,1946

According to localfolklore, ownsitself and all landwithin 2.5 m (8 ft)of its base.

Trout LakeBig Tree

PonderosaPine

Mount Adams(Washington), US46.0588°N121.5296°W

At 202 feet (62 m)tall and a diameterof 7 feet (210 cm),it is one of thelargest knownponderosa pinetrees in the world.

WashingtonOak

White oakPrinceton, NewJersey, US

Overlooks the Princeton BattlefieldState Park; located where British andAmerican forces first saw each other,igniting the Battle of Princeton in1777.

Washingtontree

Giant Sequoia California, US

Witch TreeGrand Portage,Minnesota, US

Also called Manido Giizhigance, orLittle Cedar Spirit Tree by the OjibweIndian tribe, is a cedar growing on therocky shoreline of Lake Superior. It isat least 300 years old, possibly twicethat, revered by the local OjibweIndian tribe, and mentioned byFrench explorers in 1731.

Salem Oak White oak

Salem friendsburial grounds inSalem, New Jersey,US

500-600

22 ft (6.7 m) circumference.Estimated between 500 and 600 yearsold. This tree did not sustain anydamage from the Hurricane Sandy inOctober 2012.

PechangaGreat Oak

Coast live oakTemecula,California, US

1500-2000Oldest oak tree in the United States,possibly in the world.

Black walnutLongview,Washington, US

161Marks the location of the MonticelloConvention, establishing the

Washington Territory in 1852.[18]

Historical

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Hollow Log(Balch Park)

GiantSequoia

Balch Park,Tulare County,California US36.220404°N

118.679318°W

A naturally hollowed out log of a now fallen giantsequoia that was once an attraction at a privateresort before the land was donated as a park in1930.

Beaman Oak White oakWest Boylston,Massachusetts,US

The largest white oak in Massachusetts, with a31-foot circumference and featured on the seal ofthe Town of West Boylston.

The RoyalOak

OakRoyal Oak,Michigan, US

In 1819, Michigan Governor Lewis Cass andseveral companions set out on an exploration ofMichigan territory to disprove land surveyors'claims that the territory was swampy anduninhabitable. The beginning of their journeyseemed to support those claims until they reached adesirable area of higher ground near theintersections of Main, Rochester and CrooksRoads. Here they encountered a stately oak treewith a trunk considerably wider than most otheroaks. Its large branches reminded Cass of thelegend of the royal oak tree, under which KingCharles II of England took sanctuary from enemyforces in 1660. Cass and his companions christenedthe tree the "Royal Oak."

BalmvilleTree

EasternCottonwood

Balmville, NewYork, US

Oldest tree of its species in the Eastern UnitedStates, placed on the National Register of HistoricPlaces in 2000 as New York State's smallest stateforest.

Black HawkTree

CottonwoodPrairie du Chien,Wisconsin, US

Debunked local lore held that Sauk Chief BlackHawk once hid amongst its branches to escape hispursuers. The tree was destroyed by a storm duringthe 1920s.

Burmis tree Limber pineCrowsnest Pass,Alberta, Canada

Declared dead in 1979 but still standing on thenorth side of the Crowsnest Highway.

ButtonwoodWall Street, NewYork City, NY,US

The tree which once stood at the foot of Wall Streetin New York City. It was under this tree that stocktraders once gathered and formed the ButtonwoodAgreement which later evolved into the New YorkStock Exchange.

Charter Oak White oak Connecticut, US

An unusually large tree that wasused to hide the Connecticutcolonial constitution fromEnglish governor-general SirEdmund Andros. The oak

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became a symbol of American independence and iscommemorated on the Connecticut State Quarter. Itfell during a storm in 1856. 41.75930°N72.67355°W

EisenhowerTree

Loblollypine

Augusta,Georgia, US

100-125

Loblolly pine tree on theAugusta National Golf Clubcourse, said to be "among themost famous landmarks in golf",and particularly frustrating toDwight D. Eisenhower.Removed in 2014 after suffering

irreparable damage during an ice storm.

Encino OakTree

Coast LiveOak

Los Angeles,California, US

A 1,000-year-old tree in the Encino section of LosAngeles. It was also known as the Lang Oak. Oncedescribed as "the oldest known tree in the city ofLos Angeles," it fell on February 7, 1998, due tostrong winds from an El Niño storm.

Geneseo BigTree

Geneseo, NewYork, US

A giant tree on the Genesee River, reported bysome as an elm, by others as an oak. It was the siteof the 1797 Treaty of Big Tree between RobertMorris and the Seneca tribe to sell most of westernNew York, also known as The Holland Purchase. Itwas washed away in a flood in the mid 19thcentury.

Great Elm(Boston)

ElmBoston,Massachusetts,US

The tree stood at the center of the Boston Commonuntil February 15, 1876. Initially believed to beused for executions, the tree later gained prestige asa centerpiece of the area.

HerbieAmericanelm

Yarmouth,Maine, US

212

At 110 feet in height, it was theoldest and largest of its kind inNew England. Having battledDutch elm disease for years, itscondition worsened and it wasfelled in 2010.

Hooker OakChico,California, US

InspirationOak

Live OakMagnoliaSprings,Alabama, US

Having a spread of 192 feet, this oak, a landmarkon U.S. Highway 98, was girdled with a chainsawin October 1990 during an eminent domain disputewith Baldwin County officials. Grafting efforts tosave the tree failed, and it died in 1993. Estimatedby locals to be around 500 years old, it wasdiscovered to be only 90 years old in a ring count.

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"The JoshuaTree"

Yuccabrevifolia

Mojave Desert,US

A lone-standing Joshua tree featured in the albumart of The Joshua Tree by U2. The tree fell around2000. A plaque now stands where the tree was, asthe site is a popular site for fans to pay tribute tothe band.

Kiidk'yaas(The GoldenSpruce)

Sitka Spruce

Queen CharlotteIslands, BritishColumbia,Canada

A rare golden Sitka Spruce sacred to the Haida, onHaida Gwaii. The tree was illegally felled in 1997.

Liberty Tree Elm TreeBoston,Massachusetts,US

A famous tree near BostonCommon where colonists inBoston staged the first act ofdefiance against the Britishgovernment at the tree. The tree

became a rallying point for the growing resistanceto the rule of Britain over the American coloniesand for that reason it was felled by British soldiersin 1775.

Lincoln Oak OakBloomington,Illinois, US

Historic tree at which StephenA. Douglas and AbrahamLincoln both gave speechesduring the 1850s. The tree diedin 1976.

Logan ElmAmericanElm

PickawayCounty, Ohio,US

One of the largest American elm trees recorded at65-foot-tall (20 m) with a trunk circumference of24 feet (7.3 m) and a crown spread of 180 feet (55m). Weakened by Dutch Elm Disease, the tree diedfrom storm damage in 1964.

Mercer Oak White oakPrinceton, NewJersey, US

The tree on which a wounded General HughMercer rested during the American RevolutionaryWar's Battle of Princeton. Despite its fall in early2000, it continues to be Princeton's emblem.

Mingo Oak White oakMingo County,West Virginia,US

Formerly the oldest and largest white oak in theUnited States until its felling on September 23,1938.

NationalChristmasTree

Blue sprucePresident's Parkin Washington,D.C., US

It was 9 meters (30 ft) tall when it was transplantedfrom York, Pennsylvania, in 1978. It was felled bya windstorm on February 19, 2011.

PrometheusGreat BasinBristleconePine

5,000

Was the oldest living non-clonal organism. The agewas estimated at 5,000 years. The tree was cutdown on August 6, 1964, by a graduate student and

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U.S. Forest Service personnel for researchpurposes, though at the time they did not know ofits world-record age.

SenatorPondcypress

Big Tree Park,Longwood,Florida, US

Was the oldest Pond Cypress tree in the world. Itwas 35 meters (115 ft) tall with a trunk diameter of

344 cm and an estimated stem volume of 119.4 m3.It was estimated to be 3,500 years old at the time ofits demise in early 2012.

Treaty ofGreenvilleTree

Greenville,Ohio, US

Mother ofthe Forest

Giantsequoia

a 321-foot (98 m) giant sequoia

TheWashingtonOak

HamptonPlantation nearCharleston,South Carolina,US

When George Washington visited Charleston in1791, Eliza Lucas Pinckney complained about alive oak that blocked the view. Washingtonremarked that he liked the tree, so it was saved andhas since been known as the Washington Oak.

WawonaTree

Giantsequoia

Giant sequoia with a tunnel cut through it. Fell in1969.

WebsterSycamore

Americansycamore

Near WebsterSprings inWebster County,West Virginia

approx.500

The largest American sycamore in the U.S. state ofWest Virginia until its felling in 2010.

WethersfieldElm

Wye Oak White oak Maryland, USWas the honorary state tree of Maryland, and thelargest white oak tree in the United States.

Petrified

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Callixylontree

Ada,Oklahoma,USA

250,000,000

Discovered on a farm it was the largest example of apetrified tree when it was discovered in 1913. It isestimated to be about 250,000,000 years old. After a23-year dispute with the Smithsonian Institution inWashington D.C., the tree's fragments were displayedon the East Central Oklahoma State University in

March, 1936.[19]

GinkgoPetrifiedForest

Washington,USA

PetrifiedForest

SonomaCounty,California,USA

On the List of California Historical Landmarks.

PetrifiedForestNational Park

Arizona, USA

MississippiPetrifiedForest

Other

Anthem Christmas tree, the tallest Christmas tree in the United States, erected annually at the Outlets atAnthem outside Phoenix, Arizona.Boston Christmas Tree. Since 1971, given to Boston by the people of Nova Scotia in thanks for theirassistance during the 1917 Halifax Explosion. Located in the Boston Common.Capitol Christmas Tree, the tree erected annually on the West Front Lawn of the United States Capitol, inWashington, D.C.Chicago Christmas Tree, the annual tree located in Millennium Park in the city of Chicago. Historically,the tree was located in Grant Park and Daley Plaza.Grove Christmas Tree, a 100-foot tree that is lit every year at The Grove at Farmer's Market in LosAngeles, California.Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree, a Christmas tree on display every December in Rockefeller Center,New York City.The Tree of Life, a fourteen-story artificial tree in Disney's Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World inFlorida.

Central America

Living

Guanacaste tree, focal point of Guanacaste National Park, Belize.

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Living

Cashew of Pirangi (in Portuguese language, Cajueiro de Pirangi) tree, major tourist attraction in Natal,Brazil. Believed to be the biggest cashew in the world.5.978657°S 35.123372°W

Oceania

Living

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Name Species Location Age Notes

Dave EvansBicentennialTree

Karri

near Pemberton,Western Australia34°29′35″S

115°58′22″E

Forest fire lookout tree with accessible platform,

Diamond Tree Karri10 km fromManjimup,Western Australia

Forest fire lookout tree with accessible woodenplatform (52 m high).

Dig TreeCooper Creek,Queensland,Australia

Used as a marker by members of the ill-fatedBurke and Wills expedition.

El Grande At one time, the world's largest flowering plant.

Lone Gum CoolabahSimpson Desert,South Australia,Australia

A solitary Coolabah, far from the nearestwatercourse, normally grows in heavy clay soils.There is no other tree of its kind in the region and

how it came to be there remains a mystery.[20]

Gloucester Tree Karri

GloucesterNational ParkPemberton,Western Australia

Western Australia's most famous Karri tree, withaccessible aluminium platform, in (61 m high).

Old Jarrah TreePerth, WesternAustralia

King Jarrah JarrahManjimup,Western Australia

Giant Jarrah saved by the National Trust uponoverhearing two foresters bragging at the pubabout a mighty tree they were going to chop downthe next morning.

Curtain Fig Tree Strangler FigNear Cairns,Australia.

One of the largest trees in North Queensland. Theroots dangle 15 metres to the ground to create acurtain-like effect.

Cathedral Fig

Tree[21][22] Strangler fig

Yungaburra,Tablelands Area,Queensland,Australia

"A gigantic 500 year old strangler tree", like theCurtain Fig Tree. Another massive Ficus virens inthe Danbulla Forest.

Tane Mahuta('Lord of theForest')

KauriNorthland Region,New Zealand

It is estimated to be between 1,250 and 2,500years old.

Te MatuaNgahere ('Fatherof the Forest')

KauriNorthland Region,New Zealand.

Banyan TreePark

BanyanLāhainā, Hawai'i,USA

143

The tree was imported from India and was 2.5 m(8 ft) tall when it was planted on April 24, 1873by Sheriff William Owen Smith to commemorate

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the 50th anniversary of Christian missionarywork. The tree grew to 18 m (60 ft) high with 12major trunks.

Boab PrisonTree, Derby

Boab treeSouth of Derby,Western Australia

Was used as a prison for Indigenous Australianprisoners on their way to Derby for sentencing.

Boab PrisonTree, Wyndham

Boab treeWyndham,Western Australia

Also used as a prison.

CenturionEucalyptusregnans

Tasmania,Australia

At 99.6 metres, it is tallest known eucalypt andthe tallest known angiosperm in the world, secondtallest tree species in the world.

The Grandis

EucalyptusGrandis(FloodedGum)

Near Bulahdelah,New South Wales,Australia

At 76.2 metres tall though some sources claimthat its past height was 84 metres tall. The Grandisis widely regarded as the tallest tree in New SouthWales, and one of the oldest, being over 400 yearsold.

Historical

The Tree of Knowledge at Barcaldine, Queensland under which the Australian Labor Party wastraditionally founded. In an act of vandalism, the tree was poisoned and was eventually declared dead inOctober 2006.23°33′8″S 145°17′23″E

The pine of One Tree Hill, a radiata pine which stood alone until 2000 atop One Tree Hill (Maunga-Kiekie), an extinct volcanic cone in Auckland city, New Zealand.Old Gum Tree, Glenelg, South Australia.The Explorers Tree, marked by the explorers who crossed the Blue Mountains (New South Wales) in1813.Jacaranda, University of Sydney, famous tree in the main Quadrangle. Planted 1928. Died of old age in2016.

Bodhi Tree, under which Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher and founder of Buddhism laterknown as Gautama Buddha, achieved enlightenment, or Bodhi.World Tree

Égig érő fa, the "Tree Reaching into the Sky" of Hungarian folk art and a folk tale typeIrminsulJievaras, the World tree in Lithuanian mythology.Yggdrasil, the World Tree in the Old Norse religion.

Cutting of the elm, a legendary event concerning a tree at Gisors.Cypress of Kashmar, planted by Zoroaster and felled by Caliph Al Mutawakkil.Man-eating treeThor's Oak, a sacred tree to the ancient Germanic tribe of the Chatti.Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, from Christianity and Judaism.Tree of Life, from Christianity and Judaism.

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The Lote TreeThe Zaqqum Tree

The Kite-Eating Tree from Peanuts.The Menoa Tree from the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini.Telperion and Laurelin, the Two Trees of Valinor, from The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien.The White Tree of Gondor, Fangorn forest and the Ents tree herders, from The Lord of the Rings by J. R.R. Tolkien.The Whomping Willow standing in the grounds of Hogwarts, from Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling.The Giving Tree from the Shel Silverstein book of the same nameThe Deku Tree, from the Legend of Zelda

List of superlative treesList of oldest treesList of long-living organismsNotable elm treesList of famous Eucalypt treesList of Great British TreesGerichtslindeList of tree generaBonsai

Certificate issued by the Lebanese government and the United Nations FAO1. 'Epic Olive Trees' by the Olive Oil Times, Article, 2012 (http://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-basics/world/epic-olive-trees/26998)

2.

'Bechealeh’s ancient trees still producing high-end olive oil' by The Daily Star Article, 2012(http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Business/Lebanon/2012/Oct-31/193293-bechealehs-ancient-trees-still-producing-high-end-olive-oil.ashx#axzz2EYVZGXQO)

3.

'Ancient olive branches' by The TIMES of London Article, 2006 (http://cma.staging-thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/books/article2454997.ece)

4.

"The Oldest Tree - Canlaon - Negros Oriental - Philippines" (http://www.dumagueteinfo.com/the-oldest-tree.php).Dumaguete Info. Retrieved on 2011-04-28.

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