Peacock Lumber
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Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: British Oak trees can live for 500 years. We’d have a lot more of them if Henry VIII hadn’t cut almost all of them down to build warships.

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: The tree called General Sherman is not only the biggest giant sequoia, but it is also the biggest tree in the world. It is 83.8 m (274.9 feet) tall and its girth at breast height is 24,10 m (79 feet) (near the ground it is 31,3 m or 102,6 feet).

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: British Oak trees can live for 500 years. We’d have a lot more of them if Henry VIII hadn’t cut almost all of them down to build warships.

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: Kingley Vale in West Sussex contains a host of ancient yew trees, some of which are more than 2000 years old.

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: The tree called General Sherman is not only the biggest giant sequoia, but it is also the biggest tree in the world. It is 83.8 m (274.9 feet) tall and its girth at breast height is 24,10 m (79 feet) (near the ground it is 31,3 m or 102,6 feet).

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: The tree with the widest diameter trunk is the African Baobab, just under 50 feet across with a 155 foot circumference.

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: Kingley Vale in West Sussex contains a host of ancient yew trees, some of which are more than 2000 years old.

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: The tree with the widest diameter trunk is the African Baobab, just under 50 feet across with a 155 foot circumference.

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: Buddha experienced enlightenment under the wisdom tree. And ancient British graveyards often contain a yew tree, planted by pagan worshippers before the Christians took over and built churches on the same plots.

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: Buddha experienced enlightenment under the wisdom tree. And ancient British graveyards often contain a yew tree, planted by pagan worshippers before the Christians took over and built churches on the same plots.

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: White oak is the easiest wood to bend using steam.

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: Just one tree can absorb as much as 48 pounds of carbon dioxide a year and can sequester a ton of CO2 safely by the time it’s 40 years old, which is why they’re so important in the battle against climate change.

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: The plane tree, common in London’s streets, is excellent at absorbing pollution and sheds its bark regularly so it can absorb more.

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: The Amazon Basin is the biggest area of tropical forest on Earth, spanning a whopping eight and a half million acres.

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: City trees tend to live for an average of 13 years less than country trees.

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: Redwood bark can be as much as two feet thick.

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: The terms softwood and hardwood describe the leaves, seeds and structure of the trees rather than the type of wood they produce.

Daily weird and wonderful facts about wood: Stay tuned every day for a new one: The world is home to more than 23,000 different kinds of trees.