AMAZING FACTS ABOUT TREES

10 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT TREES :

1. The world's shortest tree species is the Dwarf Willow.

2. Osage orange is the species of wood that produces the most heat when burned.

3. The blackest wood in the world is Ebony.

4. Science 1981, every Chinese citizen over the age of 11 has been required to plant three trees per year.

5. The tree with the world's greatest record tree circumference is the Santa Maria Del Tule, a Montezuma Cypress.

6. The whitest wood in the world is Holly.

7. The tree with the widest ( diameter ) tree trunk in the world is an African Baobab. Its trunk diameter is almost 49 feet and is about 72 feet tall.

8. There are Eucalyptus  trees in Hawaii with natural rainbow-colored barks.

9. One out of four ingredients in our medicine is from rainforest plants.

10. The net cooling effect of a young, healthy tree is equivalent to 10 room-size air conditioners operating 20 hours a day.