Written up in 26 languages on Wikipedia, read about 3,177 times a month.
Photo: boskimano (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The Trees the World Has Written About
Fame and size have almost nothing to do with each other. Centurion, a mountain ash in Tasmania and one of the tallest living things on earth, has been written up in four languages. An oak in a Lithuanian village that most people outside the country could not place has been written up in nineteen. This page ranks every tree we map that at least two language Wikipedias thought worth an article, most languages first, with monthly reads breaking the ties. Two is the floor because one article usually means a local historian did their job, and a second language means the tree travelled. At the top is El Árbol del Tule outside Oaxaca, a cypress whose trunk has been written about in twenty-six languages and which stands in a church courtyard open every day of the year. The order changes as the articles do, and every tree here has a pin, a story and a way to get there.
Written up in ten languages and more (6)
In fruit
Written up in 20 languages on Wikipedia, read about 5,099 times a month.
Photo: Paul Hermans (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Written up in 19 languages on Wikipedia, read about 477 times a month.
Photo: Algimantas Navickas, Arnoldas Abramavičius, Gintautas Antanavičius, Arvydas Veik (CC BY-SA 4.0)
In fruit
Written up in 12 languages on Wikipedia, read about 4,592 times a month.
Photo: Eric Nagle (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Written up in 10 languages on Wikipedia, read about 1,941 times a month.
Written up in 10 languages on Wikipedia, read about 1,318 times a month.
Photo: Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five to nine languages (7)
Written up in 9 languages on Wikipedia, read about 983 times a month.
Photo: Pseudopanax (CC BY 4.0)
Written up in 9 languages on Wikipedia, read about 295 times a month.
In fruit
Written up in 9 languages on Wikipedia, read about 221 times a month.
In fruit
Written up in 7 languages on Wikipedia, read about 3,463 times a month.
Photo: Stemonitis (CC BY-SA 2.5)
Written up in 5 languages on Wikipedia, read about 390 times a month.
Photo: そらみみ (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Written up in 5 languages on Wikipedia, read about 290 times a month.
In fruit
Written up in 5 languages on Wikipedia, read about 126 times a month.
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Three or four languages (18)
Written up in 4 languages on Wikipedia, read about 1,903 times a month.
Written up in 4 languages on Wikipedia, read about 195 times a month.
Written up in 4 languages on Wikipedia.
Written up in 4 languages on Wikipedia.
Photo: Javier Hermoso De Mendoza (CC BY-SA 2.0 es)
Written up in 3 languages on Wikipedia, read about 1,983 times a month.
Written up in 3 languages on Wikipedia, read about 789 times a month.
Photo: Potentiam (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Written up in 3 languages on Wikipedia, read about 702 times a month.
Photo: David La Rosa (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Written up in 3 languages on Wikipedia, read about 634 times a month.
Written up in 3 languages on Wikipedia, read about 614 times a month.
Photo: Bidgee (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Written up in 3 languages on Wikipedia, read about 510 times a month.
Photo: Erik Soderstrom (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Written up in 3 languages on Wikipedia, read about 472 times a month.
Photo: W. Bulach (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Written up in 3 languages on Wikipedia, read about 304 times a month.
Photo: Tubantia (CC BY-SA 3.0)
In fruit
Written up in 3 languages on Wikipedia, read about 223 times a month.
Photo: Oberlausitzerin64 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Written up in 3 languages on Wikipedia, read about 124 times a month.
Written up in 3 languages on Wikipedia, read about 108 times a month.
Photo: Wolfgang Sauber (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Written up in 3 languages on Wikipedia.
Photo: さかおり (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Written up in 3 languages on Wikipedia.
Written up in 3 languages on Wikipedia.
Photo: Śryż (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Two languages (32)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 1,487 times a month.
Photo: Rosser1954 (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 533 times a month.
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 523 times a month.
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 392 times a month.
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 334 times a month.
Photo: Bahudhara (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 251 times a month.
Photo: 京浜にけ (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 240 times a month.
Photo: UNAC (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 218 times a month.
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 214 times a month.
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 203 times a month.
Photo: Public institutions archive (CC BY-SA 4.0)
In fruit
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 200 times a month.
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 173 times a month.
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 163 times a month.
Photo: 卢传雄 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 152 times a month.
Photo: Ayuntamiento de Lecina (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 150 times a month.
Photo: Georgi Angelov (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 129 times a month.
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 116 times a month.
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia, read about 112 times a month.
Photo: ball banban (CC BY 3.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia.
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia.
Photo: João Martins (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia.
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia.
Photo: Geobia (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia.
Photo: Niels Orbesen (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia.
Photo: Finn Årup Nielsen (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia.
Photo: Vilensija (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia.
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia.
Photo: Lutz Maertens, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia.
Photo: Žemaitijos kelias (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia.
Photo: Sakaori (talk) (CC BY 3.0)
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia.
In bloom
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia.
Written up in 2 languages on Wikipedia.
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