The most important tree in the WHOLE WORLD is still alive, genetically, but stuck in the middle of Riverside, CA for all eternity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Tibbe…

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=33%C2%B056…

@1, your Wikipedia article doesn't make it clear -- is that tree in your Google map Eliza Tibbet's original orange tree? It's not the other "Mother Orange Tree" that the article links to, because that one's in Oroville (and while it is an earlier orange tree, it's not the navel orange that really got the industry moving.

My favorite tree is an ancient Douglas-Fir in Deception Pass State Park, along the beach nature path south of the park building. Instead of being tall and noble like most Doug firs, it's split and twisted and bent and sprawling more like a juniper, but it's HUGE. It's close enough to the parking lot to have taken a lot of abuse from humans over the past century or so, but it's still there. A beautiful survivor.

Yes, the google link is for the "Mother Navel Orange Tree". The "Mother Orange Tree" is a rootstock shit orange tree of zero commerce....but the first!

An great book for this area is Arthur Lee Jacobson's 'Trees of Seattle'.

How about General Sherman, the ancient Sequoia tree in Sequoia National Park?

How about General Sherman, the ancient Sequoia tree in Sequoia National Park?

Let me get this straight......

There is a tree.
No other tree around for 120 miles.
Everybody know this tree.
People practically pilgrimage to this tree.

A drunkard hits it.

How the F@%# do you explain that when you get home in the morning?

@6, sounds like the popular urban legend that in 1895 (1897, 1903, 1905) there were only two cars in all of Ohio (Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Sydney Australia) and they crashed into each other.