plant-o-pedia
whats makes a tree special?
In case you are wondering what makes a tree a special tree. A special tree is not just a rare or valuable but one type of tree in those species that are the most well known member in one species of vegatation. Below are three of the most well known ones.
Special trees(best of the best)
The first special tree we are going to show is known as the bill tree as seen to the right. The bill tree is the biggest wollemi pine ever to exist it is also said to be 40 metres tall. Its origins say that a fellow botanist was hiking in a place called wollemi national park and that the deeper he went the more mysterious the place became. Soon he was surrounded by trees h e had never seen before he found one of the biggest of these unkown trees and took one big leaf and set of to another botanist. That other botanist told him that it was a fern but he tried to tell him that it was not a fern but an actual tree. a few years after that moment the tree was identified as the wollemi pine and the big tree that he took the leaf from was also a wollemi pine except it was not any normal wollemi pine it was a special wollemi pine known as the bill tree( or king billy).
Below is the bill tree also known as king billy is the oldest and biggest wollemi pine on earth some say it is 1000 years old.
Below is a very old bristlecone pine named methuselah which is said to be 9,000 to 10,000 years old.
