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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.

Baobab Trees – Menabe, Madagascar

With nine different species, the Baobab trees of Madagascar look like they’ve popped out of Saturday morning cartoons---we can practically see King Julien of the animated series perched among the limbs! In fact, they’ve been growing in popularity since 2008. The fresh fruit is known to taste like sherbet while the roots are used to make crafts. In Australia, the trees were even carved out to form prisons back in the 1890s! Read up about them on Wikipedia.

photo: Rita Willaert via flickr