oak tree

In the past, many people intended to cut down an oak tree more than 200 years old, also known as a devil tree, but failed.

With a height of nearly 20m and an average circumference of about 73cm, an oak tree in the Kalkalpen National Park has been determined to have lived since the Middle Ages to date.

In Germany there is a hundred-year-old oak tree called

At the corner of South Finley Street and Dearing Street in Athens, Georgia, USA, a 2.4-meter-high white oak is standing still remembering its father.

Oak trees living in marshes are often found in fields. This is one of the rarest timbers in the UK, with quality comparable to today's most expensive tropical hardwoods.

Yew, baobab or oak are the oldest plants in the world, with ages up to several thousand years.