Trees might stand tall and quiet, but every one of them has a purpose. Even by standing still, the work that every single tree can manage is impossible for every human being. There are more than 50,000 species of trees, and every one of them is for our benefit. Trees around the world may provide unique fruits for every living creature, but trees are not only for food.
Trees come in all kinds of colors, shapes, and sizes imaginable for the human mind. By providing fresh fruits and cleaning air for all kinds of species, trees are simply performing miracles. Trees are available in a major variety around the world, and some of them are very unique. With beautiful and colorful leaves, or some with big and thick roots.
We have compiled a list of trees that are not commonly available at stores like Floom.
1. Dragon Blood Tree
The island of Socotra, Yemen, is the only location where dragon blood trees exist. These unique and crazy-looking trees are known and named after their resin, which looks like thick blood. With a remarkable upright, umbrella-like appearance, they stand 30 feet high and can last longer than many human generations.
The branches of the dragon blood tree look like they grow in the opposite direction from every other tree. The thick branches of this tree are in a braided design with each other. Multiple medicines and dyes require the red resin from the dragon blood tree.
2. Angel Oak Tree
Located in Charleston, South Carolina, this unique and gigantic tree is over 400 years old. A well-known landmark around the state with a large number of visits all over the year. Due to the old age of the angel oak tree, it is known to be almost 70 feet tall.
Wondering why the angel oak tree is one of the most unique trees in the world? Because this single tree covers around 17000 feet of ground. This tree alone has survived multiple natural disasters, like earthquakes, and also thousands of human interactions.
3. Rainbow eucalyptus Tree
A rare tree with also a very unique name. The Rainbow eucalyptus tree looks like it came straight out of cartoons or animated movies. This tree displays a multiple range of colors every summer when it sheds it’s outer skin. This beautiful tree is what the kids paint when they are given the image of trees. If you share images of Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree with your friends, they might consider it a photoshopped image.
This multiple-colored tree can grow upwards of 250 feet from the ground and can be grown in areas with tropical climates. It requires fertile and well-drained soils with good amounts of sunlight to grow properly.
4. Couroupita guianensis (Cannonball tree)
Couroupita guianensis, AKA Cannonball Tree, can reach heights up to 35 m. The cannonball-shaped fruits of this tree gave it an exciting nickname. It is considered one of the unique trees in the world because it can bear fruits and leaves on its bark. Bees are a huge fan of this tree, due to it’s special kind of pollen.
This beauty is definitely available in the Amazon rain forest and also in the southern regions of North America. They have beautiful little oval-shaped and smooth-edged leaves. With yellow and pink flowers growing straight from the bark of this tree, which provide an amazing scent.
5. Ginkgo Tree
Talk about a unique and exciting tree! This remarkable tree is native to China and has been planted in temples around China and Japan for a few decades. It has a very high tolerance for pollution and cold weather. Known as the living fossil because this tree has outlived dinosaurs.
Silver apricot is the widely popular name for the fruit of the Ginkgo Tree. Even though the seeds are poisonous if not cooked properly. With unique fan-shaped leaves, this tree stands tall at an average 30 m height. With unique-shaped leaves, the tree itself looks like a pyramid.
6. Blue Jacaranda
Blue Jacaranda is an amazing and beautiful tropical tree that provides amazing scented leaves. This is one of the fastest-growing trees in the world. Due to the growing rate of nearly 10 feet every year. With beautiful and zigzag twigs that are reddish-brown, this tree can grow up to 20 m tall.
Blue jacarandas have amazing bell-shaped flowers of violet colors. Which provides an amazing driving scenery and makes everyone admire this beautiful planet. This unique tree is available on routes in South America, with multiple locations in California and Texas.
7. Wisteria
If someone has seen a wisteria tree, they will definitely remember it because the looks of this tree are unforgettable. Not everyone is lucky enough to see this tree around the world because it is located in limited places like China & Japan. This tree doesn’t love to grow extremely tall; however, it grows sideways, which is a very different feature from other trees.
The wisteria tree has beautiful blue and purple-colored flowers that make it stand out from other trees. With the tree itself growing in a unique shape, it can still climb up to 20 m high. Across China, some people consider this tree to be lucky for them.
8. Monkey Puzzle
Araucaria araucana, widely known as the monkey puzzle tree, was declared a natural monument in Chile. The monkey puzzle tree can grow up to 50 m high and have a diameter of 2.5 m with an average life of 700 years or more.
Even with this long life, the tree is now near extension around South America because of illegal cutdowns and several forest fires. But still, these unique trees provide an amazing view all around the world.
The name “Monkey Puzzle” was given due to the remarks, ‘It would puzzle a monkey to climb that’.
9. Yoshino Cherry
Want breathtaking beauty in your eyes? Look out for Yoshino Cherry trees. A hybrid tree between Prunus speciosa and Prunus pendula, planted around in Japan. Yoshino Cherry Tree can grow up to 12–15 m tall and has the skill to draw tourists from all around the world.
This tree has beautiful cherry flowers, which range from pale pink to white. The flowers provide an amazing scent, which attracts pollinators and admirers towards this tree. This tree has a bulk of admirers, due to which it appears on multiple brand logo’s and even T-shirts around the world.
10. Brazil nut, Bolivia
Found in Bolivia forest, Brazil nut trees are massively tall trees. With long trunks in straight lines, due to which the flowers are difficult to see. The height of a Brazil nut tree can reach up to 50 m; because of that, people say you would need binoculars to look for the flowers.
The nuts and seeds of this tree are arranged in a unique shape, due to which they survive falls of speed up to 60 mph. Growing this tree locally is not possible, because of the challenging weather and agriculture this tree requires.
