Today only one tree remains and it is claimed to be Sydney’s oldest tree outside the Botanical Gardens. It is indisputably the largest tree of its kind to be found anywhere on the planet, and thought to be somewhere between 2,000 and 4,000 years old. Prior to its demise, The Senator was 36 m tall (118 ft) with a circumference of 10.7 m (35 ft) – the tree was originally 50 m (165 ft) tall, but the top was damaged by a hurricane in 1925. Moreover, there are only less than 100 adult trees known to exist in the wild, what makes Wollemi Pine also the rarest tree in the world. I now believe there is an even taller gum tree living in NSW and an intriguing mix of pride, politics and secrecy seems to be keeping that one out of the public’s eye. This Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla, the oldest fig tree in the Garden – is around 150 years old. The locals call it ‘The Grandis’ and claim it’s the tallest tree in NSW. Today, Collymongle in north-west NSW, is the site of around 60 surviving carved trees, the greatest cluster remaining in the … Points are awarded on the basis of a formula that includes, circumference, height, and crown spread. A film poster of 1952 Kirk Douglas movie The Big Trees A … Even smaller parts of trees can be incredibly valuable: In 2014 there were 18 cases of thieves hacking out chunks of burl from 1000-year-old California redwoods. The 400-year-old Grandis eucalypt in Myall Lakes National Park is NSW's tallest tree. The oldest known Chestnut tree in the world – known as the “Tree of 100 Horses” – can be found on the Linguaglossa road, in San D’Alfio, on the slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily. The mysterious tree species was the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis), which turned out to be one of the world’s oldest plants dating back to the time of the dinosaurs. A centuries-old tree has been cut down along Victoria’s Western Highway, according to activists who had set up camp to protect sacred trees from the highway upgrade project. It was known from fossil records and presumed extinct until it was discovered in 1994 by a bushwalker in the Wollemi National Park just outside Australia's largest city, Sydney. The Wollemi Pine is one of the world's oldest and rarest tree species belonging to a 200 million-year-old plant family. Second, stealing trees is … The Register is an integrated list of Australian native trees, and naturalised exotic/alien trees. Australia's LARGEST trees of each species are recorded in this Register.. A forest of Turpentine-Ironbark trees once populated the ridge which runs adjacent to Glebe Point Road in Glebe NSW. The tree bears a distinctive scar, cut … photo source: Wikimedia Commons The Senator was one of the oldest and biggest bald cypress trees in the world with an estimated age of 3,500 years. It’s growing near Bulahdelah in mid-northern NSW. Magnificent, rooty, creeping, towering, strangling, the mighty Australian Figs are the signature tree of the Garden and Domain, most of them planted more than a hundred years ago during the 'reign' of Charles Moore who was Garden Director 1848 - 1896. Most of the 7500-odd sacred tree sites recorded in NSW have been destroyed by land clearing, bush fires, farming and natural decay.