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Klub Gaja, World Tree Planting day - October 10th 208
Trees are the lungs of the world, without our big green friends we would not be There are around 100,000 species of Trees in the world today.
A Tree is made up of roots, branches, twigs, leaves and a trunk.
The tallest Tree in the world is a Coast Redwood in the Redwood national park in
The widest Tree in the world is a Montezuma Cypress which lives in
The Oldest Tree known to man lives on the border of
To find out how old a tree is scientists study the rings in its trunk.
The wider rings show growth in a warmer season, the bigger the ring means the more it grew that season.
The smaller rings in between the bigger ones show the growth in the colder seasons.
The Silver Birch is a native Tree of Scotland and
The Silver Birch is a fast growing tree, it can grow up to 30 metres tall and live up to 150 years.
It gets its name from the mature tree which has Silver/ Grey bark
The Silver Birch prefers drier soils to grow in.
They start to flower when they reach around 5-10 years old.
A fully grown Silver Birch can produce around 1,000,000 seeds in a year.
The seed pods have wings which help them to travel and float with the wind.
Around 334 species of insects are known to live on or around the Tree using it for food and shelter.
They drop their leaves in the winter around about November and like to grow back around April time.
Did you know that when the Worlds great Forest loose their leaves in autumn the red and yellow colours can be seen from Space?
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