{"id":13174,"date":"2023-05-01T17:10:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T17:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.kaleelah.com\/blog\/the-thickest-tallest-and-oldest-middle-eastern-trees\/"},"modified":"2023-05-01T17:10:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T17:10:30","slug":"the-thickest-tallest-and-oldest-middle-eastern-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.kaleelah.com\/en\/blog\/the-thickest-tallest-and-oldest-middle-eastern-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thickest, Tallest, and Oldest Middle Eastern Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; text-align: justify;\">Most of you probably don\u2019t think about trees when you think of the<br \/>\nMiddle East. More than likely, any thoughts of that region likely conjure up<br \/>\nimages of miles-long barren deserts for some of you. However, you may be<br \/>\nsurprised that certain parts of the Arab world do, in fact, have forests of<br \/>\ntrees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi\">Sure, some reading this are familiar with some of the more<br \/>\nwell-known Arabic trees of the region. For example, there are the famous cedars<br \/>\nof Lebanon and the pistachio forests of Afghanistan. And you don\u2019t have to know<br \/>\nthe names of plants in Arabic to be familiar with some of these trees. For<br \/>\nexample, the sap from the gum Arabic tree Senegalia Senegal is used in<br \/>\neverything from M&amp;M\u2019s to gummy bears.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi\">Today, however, we\u2019re not going to be focusing on certain types of<br \/>\ntrees in the Middle East. Instead, we\u2019ll be looking at three rather unique ones<br \/>\n\u2013 the thickest, the tallest and the oldest trees of the Middle East.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:\nminor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi\">&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><b>The Thickest Tree in the Middle East<o:p><\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:\nminor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi\">In the small village of Shur Kesh, Iran, is a rather large tree<br \/>\nknown as <i>Quercus castaneifolia, <\/i>in Arabic known as<i> <\/i><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\">\u0633\u0646\u062f\u064a\u0627\u0646&nbsp;\u0643\u0633\u062a\u0646\u0627\u0626\u064a&nbsp;\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0631\u0627\u0642<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span> \/sinyaan kastanaa\u2019ee<br \/>\nal\u2019awraaq\/. The Chestnut-Leaved Oak Tree (its everyday name) was measured in<br \/>\n2022 with a girth of 15.45 meters (50 ft.). This makes this mighty oak the<br \/>\nthickest tree in the Middle East. However, it\u2019s not the thickest tree in the<br \/>\nworld. That title goes to a cypress tree (<i>Taxodium mucronatum)<\/i>, which<br \/>\nmeasures 36.2 meters (119 ft.) around. It is located in the Mexican village of<br \/>\nSanta Maria del Tule, Mexico.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:\nminor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi\">Quercus<br \/>\ncastaneifolia, <\/span><\/i><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi\">\u0633\u0646\u062f\u064a\u0627\u0646&nbsp;\u0643\u0633\u062a\u0646\u0627\u0626\u064a&nbsp;\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0631\u0627\u0642<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:\nminor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi\"><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span>, \/sinyaan kastanaa\u2019ee al\u2019awraaq\/<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:\nminor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi\">The Tallest Tree in the Middle East<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:\nminor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi\">In 2020, researchers measured an Oriental Beech (<i>Fagus<br \/>\norientalis<\/i>) in Arabic known as <span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\">\u0632\u0627\u0646 \u0634\u0631\u0642\u064a<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span lang=\"AR-SA\"><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span> <\/span>\/zaan sharqee\/, found on the Ayder plateau in the<br \/>\nCamlihemsin district of Turkey. The Oriental Beech is native to Eastern Europe<br \/>\nand Western Asia and is well-known for its wide, shade-providing canopy. If<br \/>\nthat is the case, a lot of people must fit under the shade of this particular<br \/>\nTurkish tree. That\u2019s because researchers found it to be the tallest tree in the<br \/>\nMiddle East at 33 meters (108 ft.) tall. That\u2019s only two meters (10 ft.) shy of<br \/>\nthe tallest tree in the world \u2013 the giant Redwood, <span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\">\u0627\u0644\u062e\u0634\u0628<br \/>\n\u0627\u0644\u0623\u062d\u0645\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0645\u0644\u0627\u0642<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span> \/alkhashab al\u2019aHmar al\u02bbimlaaq\/, known as Hyperion. Located in<br \/>\nCalifornia, it is a towering 35 meters (116 ft.) high.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><i><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:\nminor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi\">Fagus<br \/>\norientalis, <\/span><\/i><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi\">\u0632\u0627\u0646 \u0634\u0631\u0642\u064a<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;\nmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi\"><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span>, \/zaan sharqee\/<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:\nminor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi\">the<br \/>\ngiant Redwood, <span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\">\u0627\u0644\u062e\u0634\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u062d\u0645\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0645\u0644\u0627\u0642<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span>,<br \/>\n\/alkhashab al\u2019aHmar al\u02bbimlaaq\/<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:\nminor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><b><span style=\"font-size:14.0pt;line-height:107%;\nfont-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi\">The Oldest Tree in the Middle East<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:\nminor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi\">Also in California is Methuselah, an ancient bristlecone pine<br \/>\nthought to be around 4,588 years old. However, half a world away in Iran is the<br \/>\nworld\u2019s second oldest tree &#8211; the Sarv-e Abarqu, in Arabic known as, <\/span><span lang=\"AR-JO\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:\nminor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-JO\">\u0633\u0631\u0648 \u0623\u0628\u0631 \u0643\u0648\u0647<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;\nmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-language:\nAR-JO\"><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span> \/siroo \u2018abar kooh\/<\/span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;\nmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi\">. Still, at<br \/>\nsomewhere around 4,000 years old, this <i>Cupressus sempervirens<\/i>&nbsp;(Mediterranean<br \/>\nCypress), <\/span><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi\">\u0633\u0631\u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u062d\u0631<br \/>\n\u0627\u0644\u0623\u0628\u064a\u0636 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u0648\u0633\u0637<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;\nmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi\"><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span>,<br \/>\n\/siroo albaHar al\u2019abyadh almutawassiT\/<\/span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi\"> is the oldest tree in the Middle East. What\u2019s more, some believe<br \/>\nit to be the oldest living thing in all of Asia. Not bad for a sapling that was<br \/>\naround when Stonehenge was completed and the Latins first set foot in<br \/>\nItaly.&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi\">These are just some of the unique trees you\u2019ll find in the Middle<br \/>\nEast. Do you know of any more?&nbsp; Please let us know and maybe we\u2019ll include<br \/>\nthem in a future blog post.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi\">Mediterranean Cypress, <\/span><span lang=\"AR-SA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;\nmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi\">\u0633\u0631\u0648 \u0627\u0644\u0628\u062d\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0628\u064a\u0636 \u0627\u0644\u0645\u062a\u0648\u0633\u0637<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:\nminor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi\"><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span>,<br \/>\n\/siroo albaHar al\u2019abyadh almutawassiT\/<\/span><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;\nmso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi\">&#8212;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi\">You know, it doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re thick or thin, tall or short,<br \/>\nold or young, anybody can learn Arabic. That\u2019s because Arabic has never been<br \/>\neasier to learn than it is today with the Kaleela Arabic Learning App.&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi\">Let Kaleela take you step-by-step through the roots of the language<br \/>\nall the way to out into Arabic dialects. Along the way, you learn the five main<br \/>\nskills of learning any language \u2013 reading, writing, listening speaking, and<br \/>\nculture.&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,sans-serif;\nmso-ascii-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:\nminor-bidi\">To make learning even easier for you, Kaleela also brings you<br \/>\nconvenience. 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More than likely, any thoughts of that region likely conjure up images of miles-long barren deserts for some of you. However, you may be surprised that certain parts of the Arab world do, in fact, have forests of trees. Sure, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[70,67,73],"class_list":["post-13174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-about-arabic-language","tag-learning-arabic-words-amp-expressions","tag-modern-standard-arabic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.0 (Yoast SEO v25.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Thickest, Tallest, and Oldest Middle Eastern Trees - Kaleela App<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Thickest, Tallest, and Oldest Middle Eastern Trees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Most of you probably don\u2019t think about trees when you think of the Middle East. 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