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The Great Vine.

East Molesey, England

The Great Vine

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

Salep milk and a biscuit.

Salep

A flour made from orchid roots makes for a popular Turkish drink.

Little Paradise Lodge.

Mount Creighton, New Zealand

Little Paradise Lodge

A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.

Sequoia National Park, California

General Sherman

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A tree with exposed roots.

Soest, Netherlands

Lange Duinen

This large sand dune in the Netherlands is home to wind-whipped trees with "floating" roots.

Brock Commons

Vancouver, British Columbia

Brock Commons Tallwood House

The "plyscraper" is the world's tallest building made predominantly out of wood.

A cross-section of an ancient tree fossil shows a much more complicated structure than the rings we know today.

Ancient Trees Were Bafflingly Complicated, and Scientists Don't Really Know Why

Tree rings are so much simpler.

Natasha Frost October 24, 2017

Râpa Roșie.

Municipiul Sebeș, Romania

Râpa Roșie

Romania's "Red Ravine" is a little-known natural wonder that bears a resemblance to the Grand Canyon.

Garden of Phallus.

Thimphu, Bhutan

Garden of Phallus (Wangchuk Chenmoi Dümra)

This garden is very fertile.

<em>Vitis vinifera vinifera</em>, the domesticated grape. A good idea is a good idea.

Scientists Look to the Grape Genome for Clues About Its Past

Domestication turned out pretty well for grapes, and for us.

Kelsey Kennedy October 20, 2017

These apples all have the same parents.

Every Apple You Eat Took Years and Years to Make

"Feel free to spit."

Sarah Laskow October 20, 2017

Sharpshooter tree memorial

Washington, D.C.

Sharpshooter's Tree

A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.

Eufaula, Alabama

The Tree That Owns Itself

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

The Hungry Tree.

Dublin, Ireland

The Hungry Tree

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

Floating gardens, Inle Lake.

Taunggyi, Myanmar

Floating Gardens of Inle Lake

A series of tiny artificial islands rich with produce bob atop the surface of the lake.

Inside the tree

Parnamirim, Brazil

World's Largest Cashew Tree

You feel like you're in a forest, but you're actually walking amidst the branches and trunks of a single giant tree.

Steinhardt Museum of Natural History.

Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Steinhardt Museum of Natural History

Israel's first dedicated natural history museum is home to 5 million specimens and still growing.

Il Bosco della Ragnaia.

Il Bosco della Ragnaia

Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.