Trees enabled us people to live. In the field of Science studies, a planet without trees would be a planet of the dead. There are so many important uses of trees. Many trees around the world are use to create and produce papers. Trees are also use to create plywood for making houses. One important role of trees is their role in our environment. A place with a lot of trees can create a healthy forest with a healthy ecosystem. Forests as we all knew are homes for many wild animals. Trees also acts as a powerful holder of soil to prevent erosion, without trees, many lands will be easily eroded when there is heavy rains or even floods, and storms.
For this top 10 post about trees, this article was inspired by
www.telegraph.co.uk. Enjoy the list below and be the judge if these trees really are, beautiful.
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Tree Name : Blue Jacaranda
Blue Jacaranda is a tree that is cultivated in almost every places in the world. These trees can reach the height of 5 to 15 meters or 16 to 49 feet. Commonly, jacarandas have thin and grey-brown colored bark. Their twigs are slender and a little bit zigzag. The flowers of these trees can reach up to 5 centimeters long.
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Tree Name : Canadian Hemlock
Canadian Hemlock tree is also called Tsuga canadensis and eastern hemlock. These beautiful trees are coniferous trees which are native to eastern North America. These trees can reach up to 554 years old for the record, and height of about 31 meters or 100 feet. But there are also some of these trees that can grow up to a huge 53 meters or 173 feet tall. Twigs of Canadian Hemlock are colored yellow-brown and leaves are having lengths of about 15 to 20 millimeters.
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Tree Name : Cannonball Tree
These deciduous tree's real name is Couroupita guianensis. It is cultivated in many places in the world but are native to Central and South American rainforests. Its fruit is called Brazil nut which shapes like a cannonball, that is why it is famously known as cannonball tree. They can grow up to 35 meters and their leaves can also grow up to 8 to 30 centimeters. Some leaves can grow up to 57 centimeters. These tree can bear 1000 flowers everyday. Cannonball trees are also used as medicine and in livestock, wherein its fruits are use to fed pigs and domestic fowls.
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Tree Name : Banyan Tree
These amazing tree is also called banian. According to some accounts the name of the tree came from the Gujarati language "banya" which means "grocer or merchant". The reason why the tree got its name "banyan" is that early merchants use these trees as shades while doing their trading activities. These fig trees are also the national tree of India with large, leathery, glossy green and elliptical leaves. Banyan trees are also used to create bonsai and leathers.
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Tree Name : Western Yellow Pine tree
Western Yellow Pine tree's original name is Pinus ponderosa. It is also known as ponderosa pine, bull pine, blackjack pine. These large coniferous beautiful evergreen fine trees are native to western North America. These trees are also known to grow in different parts of the world in temperate areas. Some of the highest pine trees are the Ponderosa Pine which is 235 feet or 72 meters tall and 324 inches or 820 centimeters in circumference. The highest fine tree is the Pacific Ponderosa pine having an enormous 268.35 or 81.79 meters height.
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Tree Name : Coast Coral Tree
These beautiful red trees' original name is Erythrina. The name Erythrina came from the Greek word "erythros" which means red. It is also called as "Flame Trees" and can grow up to 30 meters or 98 feet tall. Coral trees are used widely in the tropics and subtropics, like in streets and parks.
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Tree Name : White Poplar Tree
These trees can grow up to 15 to 50 meters or 50 to 165 feet anywhere. Poplar trunks can reach up to 2.5 meters or 8 feet in diameter. The bark of the young poplar trees is smooth and having a white to greenish or dark grey color. Poplar woods are commonly used in Italy for panel paintings. Leonardo da Vinci used poplar wood as the canvas for his famous painting Mona Lisa. White poplar may refer to several trees in the genus Populus:
- Populus alba, native to Eurasia
- Populus grandidentata, bigtooth aspen
- Populus tremuloides, American aspen
- Populus tomentosa, Chinese white poplar
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Tree Name : English Oak Tree
Oak trees or shrubs belongs to the genus quercus. There are about 600 extant species of oak tree worldwide. These trees commonly have spirally arranged leaves and also known for their strength and hardness. Oak tree has been chosen as the national tree of 13 countries listed below.
- Croatia - Pedunculate oak
- Cyprus - Golden oak
- England - Royal Oak
- Estonia - Pedunculate Oak
- Germany - Oak
- Ireland - Sessile Oak
- Italy - Olive, Oak
- Latvia - Oak
- Moldova - Oak
- Poland - Oak
- Portugal - Cork oak
- Romania - Oak
- Serbia - Oak, Serbian Spruce
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Tree Name : Bald Cypress Tree
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Bald cypress tree's original name is Taxodium distichum. These deciduous conifer trees are native to Southeastern and Gulf Plains of United States. They can reach up to 25 to 40 meters and some can grow up to 44 meters tall. The diameter of the trunk can reach up to 2 to 3 meters and also some can grow up to 5 meters. Bald cypress bark is is gray-brown to red-brown, shallowly vertically fissured, with a stringy texture. Other names for this tree includes the list below.
- baldcypress
- bald-cypress
- cypress
- southern-cypress
- white-cypress
- tidewater red-cypress
- Gulf-cypress
- red-cypress
- swamp cypress
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Tree Name : European Larch Tree
European Larch tree's original name is Larix decidua. These beautiful trees are deciduous coniferous tree and native to mountains of central Europe. They can grow up to 25 to 45 meters tall and can have a trunk size of 1 meter in diameter. Some European Larch tree can grow up to 55 meters tall having 2 meters in diameter. They are used as wood for making yacht. Other uses includes bonsai.
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