January 16, 2026
Branching into pure comment chaos
List of Individual Trees
Wikipedia’s famous trees list sparks awe, side-eye, and memes
TLDR: Wikipedia lists famous individual trees, from ancient baobabs to mythic icons, and the comments explode. Fans gush over trees’ “personality,” skeptics blink at a risqué entry, and link-sharers escalate the rabbit hole—proof that Wikipedia uniquely preserves quirky, very human stories that traditional encyclopedias skip.
Wikipedia just dropped the ultimate “who’s who” of trees—an endlessly growing list of individual legends, from ancient baobabs with hollow pubs to Iran’s 4,500-year-old cypress, plus historic icons like Zimbabwe’s dying redwood and Sierra Leone’s fallen Cotton Tree. The comments? A forest fire. Link-lobbers like mkl and kelseyfrog turned it into a full-blown rabbit hole, pointing to superlative trees and entire categories of individual physical objects and individual animals—because why stop at trees when you can catalog literally everything.
Meanwhile, the mood split: MeteorMarc got misty-eyed, saying these listings prove trees have personality. Then esperent screeched to a halt over a jaw-dropping entry about a tree in a gay cruising spot, marveling that it somehow sailed past Wikipedia’s editors—cue nervous giggles and “wood” jokes. Divbzero crowned Wikipedia the king of quirky records traditional encyclopedias wouldn’t touch, and the thread devolved into pun-laced debates over what counts as notable. Verdict: wholesome awe meets bawdy disbelief, and everyone’s happily lost in the branches.
Key Points
- •The article is a dynamic list of notable individual trees recognized for historical, cultural, locational, natural, or mythological significance.
- •African living entries include notable baobabs and milkwoods with ages and unique uses, such as the Sunland Baobab with a pub and the Post Office Tree used for mail.
- •African historical entries document trees that have fallen, including the Tree of Ténéré (1973), Panke Baobab (2011), Chapman's Baobab (2016), and The Cotton Tree (2023).
- •The Cypress of Abarkuh in Iran is listed at 4,500 years and described as the second oldest living tree in the world.
- •Each tree entry includes species, location (often with coordinates), age where known, and notes on significance or use.