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The Manchineel Tree of the Caribbean coast and the Florida Everglades secretes an exceptionally poisonous and acid sap. Upon contact with the skin, a breakout of blisters occurs. If contact with the eye occurs, a person can be blinded. And a bite of its fruit causes blistering and severe pain. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com The Most Massive Tree The “Lindsey Creek Tree,” a Coast Redwood with a minimum trunk volume of 90,000 cubic feet and a minimum total mass of 3630 tons, was the most massive known tree until it blew over in a storm in 1905. The most massive living tree is “General Sherman,” a giant sequoia found in the Sequoia National Park in California. It is 275 feet tall with a girth of 102 feet and 8 inches. http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp The Oldest Tree Found in the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in California, the oldest tree recognized is a Redwood known as “Eternal God.” The tree is believed to be between 12,000 and 7,000 years old, either way making it the oldest living tree. http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp Up until a few years ago, the world's oldest living tree, a Bristlecone Pine, named “Methuselah,” was located in the Great Basin National Park, California. It is approximately 4,844 years old. It is also the tallest living Bristlecone Pine. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ The Fortingall Yew in Glen Lyon, Perthshire, Scotland, might be as much as 9000 years old. The usual ways of calculating a tree's age by counting the annual rings in the trunk or by carbon dating are not accurate when it comes to Yews because a Yew’s trunk tends to hollow with age, while it continues to grow by rooting its branches and wrapping them around itself. There is even documentation of the formation of aerial roots growing inside the hollow trunk. Another reason: Yews have been known to stop growing for long periods of time (documented 325 years), thus having no growth rings for that period. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ Ginkgo is the world's oldest living tree species. It has been found numerous times in sedimentary rocks of the Jurassic and Triassic Periods (135-210 million years ago), when dinosaurs roamed the earth. At one time thought to be extinct, the species was proliferated from 7 trees that were discovered in an ancient monastery in China. Years later, there were some found growing wild in the isolated valleys of eastern China. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ Most Recently Discovered Tree The most recently discovered tree species is the Wollemi Pine. It was discovered in September 1994 by a New South Wales National Parks officer named David Noble in a secluded area in the Blue Mountains of the Wollemi National Park, approximately 124 miles west of Sydney, Australia. The total count of the wild mature trees is fewer than a hundred. The largest one is a little over 131 feet tall and a little shy of 4 feet in diameter. The species is from the Araucariaceae family of conifers, which are around 200 million years old, one of the oldest on earth. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ The Tallest Tree The tallest living tree is a Coast Redwood known as the “Mendocino Tree” found in Montgomery State Reserve in California. This tree, which is over 1000 years old, is more than 367 feet and 6 inches tall and is still growing. It is 5 stories higher than the Statue of Liberty. http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp and http://www.treesaregood.com/funfacts/funfacts.aspx The world's tallest living standing tree, other than a Redwood, is a 329-foot-high Douglas Fir, in Coos Bay, Oregon. It would make more than 60,000 board-feet of lumber. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ In 1872, trained forester William Ferguson reported a fallen Eucalyptus Tree which was 18 feet in diameter and 435 feet long, making it the tallest (or longest) tree ever found. It is speculated that it probably measured over 500 feet at some point in its life. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ and http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp In an article written in 2004 and featured in the weekly magazine Nature, it states that theoretically the tallest possible height that any tree could obtain is 400-425 feet. This is because of gravity and the friction between water and the vessels of the tree through which it flows. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ Shortest Tree The world's shortest tree species is the Dwarf Willow. It is rare to find one more than 2 1/2 inches tall. They have been found growing on frozen tundra in the Arctic. Lightest Wood Balsa is the lightest and softest commercially sold wood in the world. Four other woods are lighter, but none of them are suitable for any purpose. Most people are surprised to hear that botanically balsa wood is only about the third or fourth lightest wood in the world. But the very lightest varieties don't really resemble wood at all, as we commonly think of it, but resemble a tree-like vegetable that grows in rings, similar in texture to an onion. Balsa wood is often considered the strongest wood for its weight in the world. Pound for pound it is stronger in some respects than pine, hickory, or even oak. http://www.mat.uc.pt/~pedro/ncientificos/ Heaviest Wood The heaviest and the hardest wood in the world is Snakewood. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ Largest Pine Cone The Sugar Pine produces the largest cones, ranging in size from 12 to 24 inches in length and 4 to 5 inches in diameter. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ Most Recently Discovered Tree The most recently discovered tree species is the Wollemi Pine. It was discovered in September 1994 by a New South Wales National Parks officer named David Noble in a secluded area in the Blue Mountains of the Wollemi National Park, approximately 124 miles west of Sydney, Australia. The total count of the wild mature trees is fewer than a hundred. The largest one is a little over 131 feet tall and a little shy of 4 feet in diameter. The species is from the Araucariaceae family of conifers, which are around 200 million years old, one of the oldest on earth. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ Hottest Tree when Burning Osage Orange produces the most heat when burned, approximately 33 million BTU’s per 20% air dried moisture content per cord. A cord of wood is 4 feet wide x 4 feet high x 8 feet long (128 cubic feet) and has on average 80 cubic feet of burnable wood; the rest is air space. The heat content of any fire depends on wood density, resin, ash, and moisture. A rule of thumb often used for estimating heat value of firewood is: “One cord of well-seasoned hardwood (weighing approximately two tons) burned in an airtight, draft-controlled wood stove with a 55-65% efficiency is equivalent to approximately 175 gallons of #2 fuel oil or 225 therms of natural gas consumed in normal furnaces having 65-75% efficiencies.” Generally, hardwoods, which provide long-burning fires, contain the greatest total heating value per unit of volume. Softwoods, which produce a fast-burning, cracking blaze, are less dense and contain less total heating value per unit of volume. All woods dried to the same moisture content contain approximately the same heat value per pound—from 8,000 to 9,500 BTU for fully dried wood and 5,500 to 8,500 BTU for air-seasoned wood. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ and http://www.firewood.ca/woodfacts.asp Widest Tree Trunk The Santa Maria del Tule, a Montezuma Cypress in Santa Maria del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico, has the widest tree trunk in the world. The town is named after the tree, which is approximately 37 foot 6 inches in diameter, approximately 141 feet tall, and over 2000 years old. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ At one time, in the late 18th century, the world's greatest recorded tree circumference was a European Chestnut known as the "Tree of the Hundred Horses," located on Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy. At that time it had a circumference of almost 190 feet. Since then, it has separated into three trees. http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp Fastest Growing Tree The Empress Paulownia grows the fastest of any tree species. This tree can grow up to 20 feet the first year, and some have been documented growing 12 inches in 21 days. Empress trees produce 3 to 4 times more oxygen than any other known tree. Slowest Growing Tree The world's slowest growing tree is a White Cedar, located in Canada. After 155 years, it has grown to a height of 4 inches and weighs only 6/10th of an ounce. The tree can be found on a cliff side in the Canadian Great Lakes area. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ and http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp Largest Forest The world's largest forest is in northern Russia. It is located between 55 degrees North Latitude and the Arctic Circle. It is a coniferous forest, covering a total area of 2.7 billion acres. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ Largest Canopy The great Banyan in the Indian Botanical Garden, Calcutta, India, has the world’s largest tree canopy. The canopy has a circumference of 1,350 feet; it is approximately 430 feet wide, equivalent to almost 1 1/2 football fields. The tree dates to 1787. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ Rarest Tree Located in the Barolia village close to Ramnagar in the Barabanki district of Uttar Pradesh, India, the world's rarest tree is the lone Paarijat. It is 45 feet tall and approximately 27 feet in diameter. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ Most Isolated Tree A solitary Norwegian Spruce tree on Campbell Island in the Pacific is the most isolated tree on earth. The next nearest tree to it is located on the Auckland Islands, over 120 miles away. http://www.morlanwoodgifts.com/ Longest Seed Flight The cottonwood tree seed stays in flight the longest. The tiny seed is surrounded by ultra-light white fluffy hairs that can carry it on the air for several days. http://www.treesaregood.com/funfacts/funfacts.aspx
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