1.Dragon’s Blood Tree, Yemen
Elected as the representative of the most unique plants on the planet, the dragon’s blood tree makes many people hunt for its rarity. Grown on the island of Yemen in the Indian Ocean, this tree is shaped like a giant umbrella.
This plant is attractive to people because of its miraculous healing properties from its “blood” – the sap with a crimson color. Because of its strong attraction, this plant will have to face the risk of indiscriminate exploitation and extinction in the future.
2.Eucalyptus Deglupta
The deglupta eucalyptus tree, also known as the rainbow eucalyptus tree, Gum Mindanao, or Gum the Rainbow, is considered one of the most beautiful natural wonders. Many people believe that the rainbow eucalyptus tree will bring good luck to those who see it.
Not only attracted by 7 colorful rainbow colors, at first glance as if someone painted them, Eucalyptus deglupta also has many medicinal properties like other eucalyptus trees. The bark and leaves of eucalyptus contain many essential oils, often used as medicine to treat coughs, respiratory infections, some bacterial infections…
3.Giant Sequoias Tree, USA
Sequoia National Park is home to the largest population of millennium trees in the world, with large forests growing on the snowy slopes of the Sierra. Here is the second tallest recorded tree in the world with 3,200 years old. That is the Sequoias forest, the unique feature and the pride of the whole region.
Sequoias trees only grow and grow on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains, with a length of 640 km running through Nevada and California. But it can reach a height of 75m, equivalent to a 20-story building. In particular, the stems of Sequoias trees grow upright, unbranched at the bottom while the tops grow into a canopy, like giant mushrooms.
4.Silk Cotton (Cambodia)
Ta Prohm Temple, also known as Forest Temple, located in the ruins of Angkor Thom, has trees growing here in the most amazing way. It is impossible to describe until you set foot in this place and see the strange thing with your own eyes.
Apparently, this site was abandoned for a long time and after hundreds of years has developed into what is now known as the Angkor Archaeological Park.
In every direction, the trunks of the silk cotton trees rose to the sky, hiding under the giant green foliage. The stump of the tree like an octopus’s trunk covered the ground, and the endless roots curled around the ground like snakes.
5.Tule (Mexico)
Mexico’s most famous tree – the Tule tree (Arbol del Tule) grows near the city of Oaxaca. This may not be the largest or oldest tree in the world, but the Tule has no competition for the title of the largest tree in circumference (nearly 50 meters).
It is best not to see this tree as a single symbol. There is actually a whole family of old trees. Rooted in the town of Santa María del Tule, the Tule tree and its surroundings form a unique natural monument.
6.Windbreak, New Zealand
Super crooked, strangely shaped, deformed old trees can only be found at the southernmost point of the South Island, New Zealand.
This area is always subject to strong, fierce and cold southwesterly winds blowing from Antarctica. It is the strong, terrible and continuous wind that causes trees, even ancient trees to fall, bend, deform, and deform in the direction of the wind.
7.Baobab Tree in the shape of a teapot
These monumental trees are a feature of Madagascar. Their age is over 1000 years old, many trees are more than 80 meters tall and the trunk circumference can be up to 25 meters wide. However, this Baobab species is facing a high risk of extinction.
The bulging trunk will be a source of water for the plant in the drought season. The flowers of this plant are the ones that appear on Madagarca banknotes, they only last for 24 hours after blooming.