Top-10 Sherman general tree (USA)

This tree is a giant redwood tree with a volume of about 1487 cubic meters, which can be said to be the largest tree in the world

Aged between 2300 and 2700, it now grows in Sequoia National Park in California

Top-9 Baima tree

Baima tree is the largest and oldest chestnut tree found in the world, with an age of about 2000 ~ 4000

Mount Etna and Mount Etna currently grow on the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily

TOP-8 Alishan Shenmu (Taiwan)

This Alishan sacred tree is about 3000 years old. This kind of tree grows slowly, but it is often very tall. Generally, the diameter can reach 7 meters and the tree height can reach 55 ~ 60 meters

But unfortunately, a storm in 1997 brought down the sacred tree

Top-7 Jardine and juniper (USA)

This giant tree is over 3200 years old, and this kind of tree species is a very rare long-lived tree species! There are thousands of trees

Top-6 Jardine Watson (UK)

This lilanganivi yew is 3000 ~ 4000 years old. It is said to have sprouted in the British bronze age

To be more precise, the trunk of the tree has died, but the new roots growing in the trunk are entangled with the original ones, root in the rotten trunk and extend downward into the soil around the tree base

Top-5 saiyabaku tree (Iran)

It is more than 4000 years old. It is a ancient cypress tree. At present, it is located in abaku, Iran, so it is also called soroya sdesiyi

This tree has a special position in the hearts of Iranians and has strong religious significance

Top-4 erjunbai (China)

The tree is the "two general cypress" located in Songyang Academy. It is the largest existing cypress in China. The tree is at least 4500 years old and is a "living cultural relic"

Top-3 massala tree (USA)

The tree is 4800 years old. It is a large basin foxtail pine. At present, it grows in Yinyou National Forest Park in California

Top-2 African dragon blood tree (Socotra Island)

There are many dragon blood trees on Socotra Island, and the most surprising thing is that the average age of dragon blood trees on this island is as high as 8000 years old

Top-1 old tjikko (Sweden)

The aboveground part of this tree is less than 5 meters, but why is it called the first

Because the root system of this tree has a history of at least 9500 years and continues to grow

And this tree adopts asexual reproduction, that is, the trunk is the nth generation grandson of the tree root