Description

• Palms are trees although they do not have woody stems or branches.palm image by koko300 from Fotolia.com
  
  Trees are tall, perennial plants with woody stems and usually have branches toward the top, such as oak and pine trees. Other types of plants are also considered trees, such as palms, bananas and tree ferns, which do not have woody stems or extensive branches.
  
  

Colony Trees

• Ficus aerial roots form multiple trunks, which can eventually cover several acres.ficus magnolias image by jean claude braun from Fotolia.com
  
  Some trees can form large colonies of genetically identical trees that all share a common root system and have multiple stems. One colony in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah consists of 47,000 individual trunks. It covers an area of 106 acres and is thought to be over 10,000 years old.
  
  

Famous Trees

• Ancient gnarled bristlecone pines.bristlecone pines image by PHOTOFLY from Fotolia.com
  
  Methuselah is one of the oldest living beings on the planet. It is an estimated 4,600-year-old Bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California. The largest tree in the world by volume is General Sherman, a giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park and is estimated to weigh 6,200 tons.