101 Amazing Facts about Trees by Jack Goldstein

Author:Jack Goldstein
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: tree, leaf, science, interesting, did you know, omgfacts, confier, deciduous, plants, botany, christmas, biology, nature, fell, timber, maple, oak, dutch elm disease, aspen, redwood, sequoia
ISBN: 9781785380648
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2014
Published: 2014-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

Quaking Aspen

Leaves

Every tree has its own distinctive leaf shape; here are just ten which demonstrate the diversity around us...

Ash Leaves

Maple Leaves

Cypress Leaves

Horse Chestnut Leaves

The Leaves and Fruit of a Cherry Tree

Holly Leaves and Berries

Larch Leaves

The Leaves of a Scots Elm

Oak Leaves

The Leaves of a Beech Tree

Acacia

Christmas Trees

Evergreen trees were used to celebrate the turning of winter well before being associated with Christmas.

The first documented reference to a dedicated Christmas tree with decorations as we would recognise them today refers to one in Riga (in Latvia) in 1510 AD.

Although firs, pines and spruces are the most common Christmas trees today, in the past others such as hawthorn and even cherry trees have been used.

Electric lights for Christmas trees were proposed by Edward Johnson, an assistant to Thomas Edison, in 1882. By 1890 they were being mass produced.

Franklin Pierce, the 14 th President of the United States was in fact the first president to place a Christmas tree in the White House.

Most presidents have followed suit - the one key exception being Theodore Roosevelt, who banned the tradition due to environmental reasons.

The very first artificial Christmas trees were made in 19 th century Germany, where goose feathers would be dyed green, attached to wire branches and then wrapped around a central rod in place of the trunk.

Every year a huge Christmas tree is put up in London’s Trafalgar Square. This has been a tradition since 1947; the people of Norway give the people of Britain this annual gift as a token of thanks for the country’s support in the Second World War.

In the past, Christmas trees around the world came from forests - however nowadays the majority are grown as sustainable crops on dedicated farms.

The USA is home to an astonishing fifteen thousand Christmas tree farms, which are currently growing around four hundred million trees - the huge number is needed as a single tree will take six years to reach maturity!

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