Named after a Tree Species

Connected Sites: 7

WHS where the full name includes the name of a species of tree.

Connected Sites

  • Sundarbans National Park
    Sundarbans National Park
    India
    Inscribed: 1987
    2.76
    27
    6
    Sundari tree, a special kind of mangrove tree.
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • The Sundarbans
    The Sundarbans
    Bangladesh
    Inscribed: 1997
    2.82
    30
    2
    Sundari tree, a special kind of mangrove tree.
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Primeval Beech Forests
    Primeval Beech Forests
    Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine
    Inscribed: 2007
    2.71
    316
    37
    European beech (Fagus sylvatica)
  • Laurisilva of Madeira
    Laurisilva of Madeira
    Portugal
    Inscribed: 1999
    3.40
    116
    7
    Named after the plant family Laurels, and "Endemic trees belonging to the Lauraceae family such as the Barbusano Apollonias barbujana ssp. Barbujana, the Laurel Laurus novocanariensis, the Til Ocotea foetens and the Vinhático Persea indica are dominant." (OUV)
  • Redwood
    Redwood
    United States of America
    Inscribed: 1980
    4.01
    187
    7
    Coast Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens)
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Qadisha Valley
    Qadisha Valley
    Lebanon
    Inscribed: 1998
    3.31
    65
    4
    "one of the rare sites where the Cedrus lebani still grows"
    See en.wikipedia.org
  • Los Alerces National Park
    Los Alerces National Park
    Argentina
    Inscribed: 2017
    3.68
    23
    4
    Alerce trees (Fitzroya cupressoides), a conifer endemic to South America.
    See en.wikipedia.org