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This is a list of national trees, most official, but some unofficial.
National trees
Country | Common name | Scientific name | Picture | Source |
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Afghanistan | Mulberry (unofficial) |
Morus nigra | [1] | |
Albania | Olive | Olea europaea | [2] | |
Antigua and Barbuda | Whitewood |
Bucida buceras |
[3][4] | |
Angola | Baobab |
Adansonia digitata | [5][6] | |
Argentina | Ceibo | Erythrina crista-galli | [7][8] | |
Red quebracho | Schinopsis balansae | [7][8] | ||
Australia | Golden wattle |
Acacia pycnantha | [9] | |
Bahamas | Lignum Vitae |
Guaiacum sanctum | [10][11][12] | |
Bangladesh | Mango tree (Aam Gaachh) |
Mangifera indica | [13] | |
Belarus | Pedunculate oak (unofficial) |
Quercus, Quercus robur |
[14] | |
Belize | Honduras mahogany | Swietenia macrophylla | [15] | |
Bhutan | Bhutan cypress | Cupressus cashmeriana | [16] | |
Brazil | Brazilwood |
Caesalpinia echinata |
[17] | |
Cambodia | Palmyra palm | Borassus flabellifer | [18][19] | |
Canada | Maple | Acer |
[20][21] | |
Chile | Araucaria | Araucaria araucana | [22][23] | |
Colombia | Quindio wax palm |
Ceroxylon quindiuense | [24][25] | |
Costa Rica | Guanacaste |
Enterolobium cyclocarpum | [26] | |
Croatia | Pedunculate oak |
Quercus, Quercus robur |
[27] | |
Cuba | Cuban royal palm | Roystonea regia | [28] | |
Cyprus | Golden oak | Quercus alnifolia | [29][30] | |
Czech Republic | Small-leaved lime/Small-leaved linden | Tilia cordata | [31] | |
Denmark | European beech |
Fagus sylvatica | [32] | |
Pedunculate oak |
Quercus, Quercus robur |
[32] | ||
Dominican Republic | West Indian mahogany | Swietenia mahagoni | [33] | |
Ecuador | Cinchona pubescens | Cinchona pubescens | [34] | |
El Salvador | Maquilishuat | Tabebuia rosea | [35][36] | |
England | Pedunculate oak |
Quercus, Quercus robur |
||
Estonia | Pedunculate oak |
Quercus, Quercus robur |
||
Finland | Silver birch |
Betula pendula | [37] | |
Germany | Pedunculate oak |
Quercus, Quercus robur |
||
Greece | Olive | Olea europaea | ||
Guatemala | Ceiba | Ceiba pentandra | ||
Haiti | Royal palm | Roystonea | [38][39][40] | |
Hungary | Elm (unofficial) | Ulmus | [41] | |
India | Indian banyan |
Ficus benghalensis | [42] | |
Indonesia | Teak | Tectona | ||
Ireland | Sessile oak | Quercus petraea | [43] | |
Iran | Mediterranean cypress |
Cupressus sempervirens | ||
Israel | Olive | Olea europaea | ||
Italy | Strawberry tree |
Arbutus unedo | ||
Jamaica | Blue mahoe | Talipariti elatum | [44] | |
Japan | Japanese cherry blossom |
Prunus serrulata | ||
Laos | Frangipani |
Plumeria | ||
Latvia | Pedunculate oak |
Quercus, Quercus robur |
||
Linden | Tilia cordata | [45] | ||
Lebanon | Lebanon cedar |
Cedrus libani | ||
Lithuania | Pedunculate oak |
Quercus, Quercus robur |
[46] | |
Macedonia | Macedonian pine (unofficial) |
Pinus peuce | [47] | |
Madagascar | Baobab | Adansonia | ||
Malaysia | Borneo/Malacca teak, Merbau | Intsia palembanica | [48] | |
Maldives | Coconut palm | Cocos nucifera | ||
Malta | Għargħar | Tetraclinis articulata | ||
Mexico | Ahuehuete | Taxodium mucronatum | [49] | |
Moldova | Pedunculate oak |
Quercus, Quercus robur |
||
Moravia | Sorb tree |
Sorbus domestica |
[50] [51] | |
Nepal | Rhododendron | Rhododendron | [16] | |
New Zealand | Silver fern | Cyathea dealbata |
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Nicaragua | Lemonwood | Calycophyllum candidissimum | [52] | |
North Korea | Pine | Pinus | [53] | |
Pakistan | Deodar | Cedrus deodara | [54] | |
Palestine | Olive | Olea europaea | ||
Panama | Panama tree |
Sterculia apetala | ||
Paraguay | Lapacho | Handroanthus (whole genus)[55] | ||
Peru | Cinchona officinalis | Cinchona | [56] | |
Philippines | Narra | Pterocarpus indicus | ||
Poland | Pedunculate oak |
Quercus, Quercus robur |
[57] | |
Portugal | Cork oak |
Quercus suber | [58] | |
Qatar | Christ's thorn jujube | Ziziphus spina-christi | [59] | |
Romania | Pedunculate oak |
Quercus, Quercus robur |
[60] | |
Russia | Siberian larch
|
Larix sibirica | [61][62] | |
Saudi Arabia | Phoenix palm | Phoenix dactylifera |
||
Scotland | Scots pine |
Pinus sylvestris | [63] | |
Senegal | Baobab | Adansonia digitata | ||
Serbia | Pedunculate oak |
Quercus, Quercus robur |
||
Serbian spruce |
Picea omorika | |||
Slovakia | Small-leaved lime/Small-leaved linden | Tilia cordata | [31] | |
Slovenia | Tilia (Linden) | Tilia | ||
Spain | Ballota oak | Quercus rotundifolia | [citation needed] | |
South Africa | Real yellowwood | Podocarpus latifolius | [64] | |
South Korea | Hibiscus syriacus, Pinus densiflora | Hibiscus syriacus, "Pinus densiflora" | ||
Sri Lanka | Sri Lankan ironwood |
Mesua nagassarium | ||
Sweden | Ornäs birch | Betula pendula 'Dalecarlica' | ||
Tanzania | African blackwood |
Dalbergia melanoxylon | ||
Thailand | Ratchaphruek | Cassia fistula | ||
Ukraine | Viburnum, Willow | Viburnum, Salix | [65] | |
United Arab Emirates | Ghaf tree |
Prosopis cineraria | ||
United Kingdom | Pedunculate oak |
Quercus, Quercus robur |
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United States | Oak | Quercus | [66] | |
Uruguay | Árbol de Artigas | Peltophorum dubium | ||
Venezuela | Araguaney | Tabebuia chrysantha |
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Wales | Sessile oak | Quercus petraea | ||
Yemen | Dragon blood tree | Dracaena cinnabari | [31] |
See also
- National emblem
- Floral emblem
- List of U.S. State and territory trees
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