Collection of 100 Facts...


Trees are the longest living and largest living organisms on Earth

There are about 20 000 tree species in the World.

Like animals, trees need food and water. The thing that sets them apart is their struggle for light.

Tree rings provide precise information about environmental events. Dendrochronology is the science of dating tree from their rings.

Willows can be either trees or shrubs, depending upon the plant.

There are more than 400 species of weeping willow trees.

Weeping willows cross with one another so easily that new varietys are constantl springing up, both in nature and in cultivation

The Wild Fig tree at Echo Caves, near Ohrigstad, South Africa has roots reaching 400 feet making it the deepest a trees roots have penetrated.

The Dragon Tree is shaped like a parasol which shades seeds on the ground and prevents water drying up.

The Worlds rarest trees are endemics of remote islands, some only known from single wild specimens such as the St Helena Olive.

Butterflies have often adapted to living in managed woodland. In parts of England, the Fritillary butterflies have become associated with manmade coppice systems.

Tree bark and fruit have many medical properties which are still being discovered

Trees are good noise barriers

Tree rots hold soil in place while dead leaves return nitrients to the ground

Climate control- trees are natural barriers to wind, snow, rain and solar rays.

Trees help reduce the greenhouse effect by absorbing CO2.

Trees help protect the habitat of thousands of speces of animals.

Britain has some 80% of Europes ancient trees.

In 50 years 1 tree recycles more than £60 000 worth of water, provides £50 000 worth of erotion control, £100 000 worth of air pollution control and produces £60 000 worth of oxygen.

Trees produce Oxygen

An Oak spends 300 years growing, 300 years resting and 300 years declining gracefully.

By the time the tree is 70 to 80 yrs old it will produce thousands of acorns.

A fully grown Oak in the uk grows and sheds 250 000 leaves every year and produces around 50 000 acorns n a good year.

Oak trees are a type of deciduous tree.

Real strong acorn productions might happen every 4-10 years.

Oak trees start producing acorns when they are 20 years old.

Oak trees can live 200 years or more.

You can buy Christmas trees up to 12ft (www.pineneedles.com)

Americans buy about 30 million to 35 million real christmas trees every year.

It takes an average of 7 years to grow a Christmas tree.

Each acre of live Christmas trees provide the daily oxygen requirement of 18 peoplle.

The seeds from a Cottonwood tree have tiny white hairs on them that can keep the seeds in flight for several days.

A healthy mature birch tree can provide up to 1 million seeds in a good year.

Pine trees keep there leaves all year round.

Leaves hibernate through the winter until spring.

Leaves can turn purple, red, orang or yellow.

Yew leaves may help in tratment of cancer. A drug called Taxol can be produced from them.

Broad leaved tree can change colour in the autum because the green chlorophyll leaves breaks down and is reabsorbed the tree, prior the leaf shed.

2 mature trees provide enough oxygen for a family of 4

The best type of soil for a healthy and nutritious growth of deciduous trees are refered to as podzol.

Cities without cooling shade from tres can be 'heat sinks' with temperatures as much as 12 degrees higher than surrounding areas.

Leaves change colour as the tree pulls all water and nutrients back into the trunk.

The height above sea level at which trees cannot grow is called 'the tree line'. This changes the latitude in the Alps i is approximatly 7000 ft whilst in North Wales its a mere 1820ft.

Salt water is lethal for nearly all plants.

The first Christmas tree lights were mass produced in 1890.

The Dragons Blood Tree lives in the mountains in the Arabian sea.

Its bizzar shape has evolved prfectly to survive in dry mountains where there is little soil.

They are distinctive and slow growing.

The fastest growing tree is the Albizzia falcata which had grown 35 feet and 3 inches in 13 months, an approximate of 1.1 inches per day.

The slowest growing tree is the White Cedar located in the Great Lakes area of Canada, has only grown to less than 4 inches tall during its 155 years.

Dracaena Cinnabari is reffered to as the Dragons blood tree.

The most dangerous tree is the Manchineel tree of the Caribbean coast, an exceptionally poisonous and acid sap. Upon contact to the skin, a breakut of blisters would occur. In the occasions where there is contact to the eye a person can be blinded and a bite of its fruit causes blistering and servere pain.

The Coast of Australia lives a Red Mangrow.

Well places trees help cut energy costs and consumption by decreasing air conditioning costs 10- 50% and reducing heating costs as much as 4-22%.

In deserts, leaves absorb moisture from the dew and frost of the cool nights and release it to cool the air during the warm days

By cooling the air and ground around them, the shade from trees helps cool the Earths temperature.

Trees help prevent city flooding by catching raindrops and offsetting run off caused by buildings and parking lots.

A large Beach tree can provide enough oxygen for daily requirment of 10 people.

It allows water in but filters out 99% of the salt through its huge roots.

Trees can save up to 10% of energy consumptions through their moderation of local climate.

To manufacture food, plants need nutrient and soil moisture from water and carbon dioxide from the air and suns energy.

The expression 'touch wood' for goodluck originated from primitive tree worshop when rapping on trees was believed to summon protective spirits to ward off evil.

The oldest record of a decorated Christmas tree came from a 1605 diary found in Strasbury, France. The treee was decorated with paper roses, apples and candies.

Britain oldest tree is the Fortingall Yew in Tayside, which is believed to be over 3000 yrs old.

Some are over 1500 years old which makes them the oldest trees in Australia,

Every Boab tree is unique

The largest individual tree in the world is the Giant Redwood called General Sherman. It is about 275ft tall and a girth of 85ft.

The worlds oldest trees are the bristlecone Pines in the USA with a confirmed age of 4600 years old.