Special trees
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Tree of Love at Unification Church Holy Ground, CheongPyeong, South Korea [1]
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Around the world we can find many special trees. Some trees are special because they are very old, other trees have a historic meaning. Trees are often used for sacred purposes, as mediators between heaven and earth on a consecrated location of worship.
Trees also have a symbolic meaning and can refer to 'man.' In the Garden of Eden there were two trees, the Tree of Life[2] and the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil[3].
Historical trees
Name of the tree Photo Description Age Ankerwycke Yew 
The Ankerwycke Yew is an ancient taxus tree in Berkshire, England. According to some historians this is the most obvious place for the signing of the Magna Carta on June 15, 1215. It is also said to be the location where Henry VIII met Anne Boleyn in the 1530s.[4] Various estimates have put its age at between 2,000 and 2,500 years.
Oldest trees
Name of the tree Photo Description Age Great sugi of Kayano 
Girth of 9.6 m. One of the four trees believed to be sacred in the precincts in a Shinto shrine.[5] Estimated to be 2,300 years old. Hundred Horse Chestnut 
The Hundred Horse Chestnut is the largest and oldest known chestnut tree in the world. It is located on the eastern slope of Mount Etna in Sicily — only 8 km (5.0 mi) from the volcano's crater. It is a Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa).[6] It is believed to be 2,000 to 4,000 years old Methuselah 
The tree grows in the Methuselah Grove of the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest in California. It is a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva).[7] Its measured age of 4,843 years makes it the world's oldest known living non-clonal organism. Old Tjikko 
Old Tjikko[8], a Norway Spruce, is the oldest known living individual clonal[9] tree. 9,550 year old Sarv-e Abarqu 150px Sarv-e Abarqu ("cypress of Abarqu") is a cypress tree in Abarkuh, Yazd, Iran. It has a height of 25 meters height and perimeter of 18 meters.[10] It is estimated to be over four thousand years old and may be the oldest living thing in Asia. Te Matua Ngahere 
Te Matua Ngahere is a giant kauri (Agathis australis) coniferous tree in the Waipoua Forest of New Zealand.[11] It is estimated to be between 1200 or even 4000 years old.
See also
References
- ↑ CheongPyeong Heaven and Earth Training Center
- ↑ Tree of Life (biblical) - Wikipedia
- ↑ Tree of the knowledge of good and evil - Wikipedia
- ↑ [Ankerwycke Yew - Wikipedia]
- ↑ Great sugi of Kayano - Wikipedia
- ↑ Hundred Horse Chestnut - Wikipedia
- ↑ Methuselah (tree) - Wikipedia
- ↑ Old Tjikko - Wikipedia
- ↑ A cell, group of cells, or organism that is descended from and genetically identical to a single common ancestor tree.
- ↑ Sarv-e Abarqu - Wikipedia
- ↑ Te Matua Ngahere - Wikipedia
