The following is a partial list of famous trees. The list includes individual trees located throughout the world, as well as trees from myths and trees from fiction.
Real individual trees
Africa
- Arbre du Ténéré, a very isolated tree in the Sahara region.
Asia
- Assattha, a Bodhi tree or peepul tree under which Buddha is supposed to have been enlightened, at Bodh Gaya, India.
- The over 450 years old giant banyan tree at Adyar in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India in the grounds of the Theosophical Society headquarters under which people listened to discourses by luminaries such as J. Krishnamurti, Annie Besant and Maria Montessori.
- Guilty Chinese Scholartree, located in Jingshan park, on which Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself shortly after escaping the Forbidden City in Beijing, China (deceased and later replaced by a replica).
- Jomon Sugi, a very large, old Sugi on Yakushima island, Japan.
Europe
- Bartek, an oak grows in Zagnansk in Swietokrzyskie Mountains; the most famous tree in Poland, about 1200 years old, 30 metre tall, measures 13,5 metres round its girth near the ground and its circumference at breast height is about 40 metres.
- Fortingall Yew, a yew at Perth and Kinross, Perthshire, Scotland; the oldest tree in Europe, thought to be about 4,000 years old.
- Gernikako Arbola, an oak representing the Basque people, at Guernica, Basque Country, Spain.
- Glastonbury Thorn, a hawthorn reputed to have been planted by Joseph of Arimathea.
- Irminsul, a tree venerated by the Saxons. It was located near Eresburg castle, Paderborn, and was destroyed by Charlemagne, in 772.
- Kongeegen (the King Oak), an ancient English oak in Jægerspris Nordskov, Sjælland, Denmark; estimated to be over 1200 years old, one of the the oldest oaks in the world.
- The Lone Pine, a Turkish Pine used as a landmark in the ANZAC landings at Gallipoli in the First World War. Seeds collected from this tree are planted at many Australian war memorials.
- Major Oak, an ancient English oak in Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, England.
- Merlin's Oak at Carmarthen, Wales.
- Royal Oak, the English oak in which King Charles II hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651, located in Boscobel, England (deceased and replaced by a replica).
- Shakespeare's mulberry tree at New Place, Stratford-on-Avon, cut down in the mid-18th century and fashioned into mementos.
- Tree of Hippocrates, the Oriental plane under which Hippocrates is supposed to have taught, on the island of Kos, Greece.
North America
- Angel Oak, a Southern live oak on Johns Island, near Charleston, South Carolina is estimated at 1400 years of age. It is threatened by nearby development.
- Charter Oak in which the Connecticut charter was hidden from Andros.
- El arbol del Tule, the stoutest tree in the world, a Montezuma Bald Cypress in Santa Maria del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico.
- El Palo Alto, a Coast Redwood in Palo Alto, California.
- The General Grant tree, the official Christmas tree of the United States, a Giant Sequoia, in Kings Canyon National Park, California.
- General Sherman tree, the world's largest living thing, a Giant Sequoia in Sequoia National Park, California.
- Geneseo Big Tree at Geneseo, New York, a giant tree on the Genesee River, reported by some as an elm by others as an oak. It was the site of the 1797 Treaty of Big Tree between Robert Morris and the Seneca tribe to sell most of western New York, also known as The Holland Purchase. It was washed away in a flood in the mid 19th century.
- Kiidk'yaas, a rare golden spruce sacred to the Haida, on Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), British Columbia, Canada.
- Liberty Tree at Boston, Massachusetts.
- Lone Cypress, a dramatically situated Monterey Cypress on the 17 Mile Drive in Pebble Beach, California.
- Methuselah, the oldest known living organism (approximately 4,700 years), a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine in California.
- Stratosphere Giant, tallest tree in the world, a Coast Redwood in California.
- Treaty Oak, in Austin, Texas.
- Washington tree in California
Oceania
- Tane Mahuta ('Lord of the Forest'), a giant Kauri in Northland, New Zealand.
- Te Matua Ngahere ('Father of the Forest'), another giant Kauri in Northland, New Zealand.
Mythological and religious
- Jievaras The World tree in Lithuanian mythology.
- Tree of Jesse, from which the Cross was made, in medieval Christian legend.
- Tree of Knowledge, from Christianity and Judaism.
- Tree of Life, from Christianity and Judaism.
- Yggdrasil, The World Tree in the Old Norse religion.
- World Tree, a gigantic oak, that holds the whole Universe in Slavic mythology.
Fictional
- Avendesora and Avendoraldera from Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time.
- The Giving Tree, in the book of that title by Shel Silverstein.
- The One Tree from Stephen R. Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.
- Telperion and Laurelin, the Two Trees of Valinor, from The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien.
- White Tree of Gondor from The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.