The more than 4,800-year-old pine tree in California, USA currently holds the record for the oldest surviving tree on Earth.
General Sherman iguana is about 2,300 – 2,700 years old in Sequoia National Park in California, USA. By volume, it is the largest living single tree on Earth. It is 83.8 m tall and has a maximum diameter of 11.1 m. Photo: Greg L. Jones.
The Bowthorpe tree in Lincolnshire, England is recorded as the oldest oak tree in the Guinness Book of World Records. Bowthorpe is estimated to be over 1,000 years old and has a trunk circumference of up to 12.3 m.
Rilke’s Bayon (Tetrameles nudiflora) tree grows on an ancient temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The tree is at least 45 meters tall with huge root clusters extending from the temple roof to the ground.
The Jōmon Sugi willow tree, at least 2,170 years old, grows on the island of Yakushima, Japan at an altitude of more than 1,900 m above sea level. With a height of 25.3 m, a trunk circumference of 16.4 m and an approximate volume of 300 m3, this is the largest coniferous tree in the land of the Rising Sun.
Queen Elizabeth oak tree about 800 – 1,000 years old inside Cowdray Park in West Sussex, England. The tree has a trunk circumference of up to 15.8 m.
The 1,000-year-old Taxus baccata yew tree grows on the base of the Whittingehame tower in East Lothian, Scotland. The canopy forms a circle with a circumference of nearly 240 m.
A 420-year-old conifer tree inside the grounds of Croft Castle in Herefordshire, England. It is grown from seeds recovered from a Spanish shipwreck in 1592.
