The leaves of the Australian fan palm, which is native to northern Queensland, grow up to six feet (2m) long to form a near-perfect circle.
Unusually, the branches of the hundred beech trees in the Spanish forest of Otzarreta grow up rather than out. When they were around 50 years old, the trunks of these trees were cut to about 10 feet (3m) by woodsmen for charcoal production.
Part of the northern Appalachians, the White Mountain National Forest was established in 1918 under the Weeks Act, named after Massachusetts Congressman John W. Weeks.
A mountain range in the remote republic of Buryatia in southern Siberia, the Sayan once served as a border between Russia and Mongolia.
The only eucalyptus species to grow in rainforests, the rainbow eucalyptus is native to Indonesia, the Philippines and New Guinea.
Covering 42,800 acres, Irati is a large beech and fir forest in the western Pyrenees. Relatively isolated, Irati’s environments range from forests to wetlands, and from subalpine meadows to Atlantic heaths.
Around the Christian world on the Sunday before Easter, churches hand out palms to their congregations. But in Colombia, this practice, along with habitat loss and disease.
Brush and pine-covered hillsides lead up to Four Peaks Mountain, part of the Mazatzal Mountains range in south-central Arizona.
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