
World’s Loneliest Tree
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
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Sid Gaspruce - The Perfect Christmas Tree
Campbell island sitka spruce is growing faster than it does in its normal climate, five to ten times faster. The tree got its reputation as the world's loneliest back in the 19 seventies after the previous record holder was killed. Its norlly tangled up trunk could help settle an argument in a scientific debate about humanity and our time on earth.
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