Oldest and Biggest Trees in the World - Baobab and Redwood

Oldest and Biggest Trees in the World

- Baobab and Redwood

Dr Abe V Rotor

Few trees live in isolation. One of them is the baobab (Adansonia digitata) found in South Africa claimed to be 6000 years old (1000 years at least by Carbon dating). In The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint- Exupery, the baobab is feared because it could destroy the small planet of the little prince. The tree was also featured as movie background of The Gods Must be Crazy.

Sequoioideae, popularly known as redwoods, is a subfamily of coniferous trees within the family Cupressaceae. It includes the largest and tallest trees in the world.

Remains of a once towering redwood, one of the tallest and oldest trees

in the world. It is believed it was already bearing cones at the time of Christ.  

Standing redwood trees showing massive trunks

 

Redwood bonsai; redwood seedling. ~