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13 Trees That Will-ow Amaze You

Read about the world's most amazing trees, from one that grows fruit that tastes like sherbet to another featuring a tunnel with a real running railroad!

By Christal Y. April 18, 2015

Your kiddos play beneath their shade all summer long, and you have aspiring dreams of building a fortress among the leaves. No doubt about it, trees are pretty awesome. Living beings that produce over half of the fresh air we breathe, there’s reason to celebrate their lofty reach. In honor of Arbor Day, we’ve complied a gallery of the coolest trees in the world. Read about an ancient bristlecone pine tree in California, a Guinness World Record cashew tree in Brazil and more breathtaking beauties below.

General Sherman Tree – Sequoia National Park, Ca, United States

Woot! How many little arms will it take to get round the General Sherman? Although many trees surpass this tree as largest, tallest, oldest and widest, it does have its claim to fame as the largest living single stem tree. As a sequoia, it belong to the family of the world’s most massive tree. If you ever pass by a sequoia with black burns, let your seedlings know those are the tree’s “battle scars” from forest fires. Click here for more tree facts from USA today.

photo: Robbie McConnell via flickr