New discoveries are always exciting! Today, I discovered #treetuesday by 
I had to think long and hard on where to start, since I have hundreds of pictures of amazing trees I have met on my travels. I couldn't really choose one, I decided to start with a collection:
Millennial Trees at the Orto Botanico di Firenze (Florence Botanical Garden)
A few months back, with my graduate school program, we took a field trip to the Botanical Garden of Florence. What a thrill to have this piece of history so close. From their website:
The Botanical Gardens of Florence were founded on December 1st, 1545, when Grand Duke Cosimo dei Medici purchased the land from the Dominican sisters. The orchard that was known with the name of Giardino dei Semplici, because of the fact that it was used to cultivate and raise medicinal plants, is the third oldest botanical garden after those of Padua and Pisa.
On this relatively small 2.39 hectares, there are over 5,000 specimens of plants, including five (5) millennial trees. Can you believe it, FIVE TREES THAT ARE OVER 1000 YEARS OLD!
The vegetable patrimony is formed by over 5,000 examples with several very old trees, some of which, such as the Taxus baccata, planted by Micheli himself round 1720, a very large cork oak planted in 1805 and never stripped, several examples of Coniferae like the Araucaria, Torreya, Sequoia and a beautiful example of Metasequoia glytostroboides, a species originally known as fossil and rediscovered in China only in 1941.
I tried to capture pictures of all of them, but it wasn't so easy since some are so big they require two photos! Hope you enjoy my collection:
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