Broadest Trees in the World

Broadest Trees

The broadest trees in the world are the trees with the broadest crowns have the widest spread of limbs from a single trunk.

List of Trees with the Broadest Crowns, by Species

Tree SpeciesTree DiameterTree nameTree Location
MetersFeet
Banyan (Ficus benghalensis)180.0590.551Thimmamma MarrimanuAnantapur, Kadiri, Andra Pradesh, India
Coolibah (Eucalyptus microtheca)72.8239Monkira MonsterNeuragully Waterhole, southwestern Queensland, Australia
Oriental plane (Platanus orientalis)64.0210Oriental Plane Tree at Corsham CourtWiltshire, England.
Raintree or monkeypod tree (Samanea saman)63.1207Saman de GuereSan Mateo, Aragua State, Venezuela
Silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra)61.3201The Big TreeBarro Colorado Island, Panama
European yew (Taxus baccata)55.5182Shugborough YewShugborough Hall, Staffordshire, England
Sand post oak (Quercus stellata margarettae)55.2181Gilchrist County, Florida
Turkey oak (Quercus cerris):53.9177Devon, England.
Moreton Bay fig (Ficus macrophylla)53.6176Moreton Bay Fig TreeChapala Street in Santa Barbara, California.
Scarlet Oak (Quercus coccinea)53.6176<name not given>Middlesboro, Kentucky
Coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia)53.6176The Pechanga Great OakPechanga Native American Reservation east of Temecula, California.
Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum)53.3175El GiganteSanta Maria del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico
Blackbutt (Eucalyptus pilularis)51.8170BenaroonJohn’s River in Middle Brother National Park, New South Wales, Australia.
Live oak (Quercus virginiana)51.8170The E. O. Hunt OakLong Beach, Mississippi
American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis)51.5169The Lansdowne SycamoreLansdowne, Pennsylvania
African Baobab (Adansonia digitata)51.2168The Glencoe TreeHuidespruit, Limpopo Province, South Africa.
Batai (Albizzia falcata)50.9167Hawai’i