Trees Trivia
Branch out your brain and prove you’re no sap when it comes to tree trivia—from maple leaves to Bodhi vibes.
EXAMPLE QUESTIONS
During which part of the year can mature oak trees drink up to 100 gallons of water per day?
Peak summer
What activity is the primary threat to the critically endangered Honduras rosewood, prized for luxury furniture and instruments?
Illegal logging
In colonial America through Prohibition, most apples were grown to make which fermented drink that often stood in for unsafe water?
Hard cider
Pando is the nickname of this vast grove in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest that looks like tens of thousands of trees—yet it’s really a single what?
Organism
Under which tree did Siddhartha Gautama, the future Buddha, attain enlightenment in Bodh Gaya, India?
Bodhi tree