Here are a few questions with answers I thought I would share:
1. What is the largest genus of forest trees?
Answer- Hawthorns; the genus of (Crataegus), comprises about 165 species.
2. What is the largest genus of commercial forest trees?
Answer- Oaks, there are about 60 species not counting hybrids and varieties.
3. What State has the largest number of different kinds of trees?
Answer- Florida has 314 species of native and naturalised trees. Texas, Georgia, California follow.
4. What State has the least number of trees?
Answer- North Dakota is almost treeless, except for cottonwoods and willows.
5. What is a softwood tree?
Answer- trees of the pine family, like conifers and cone bearers.
6. What is a hardwood tree?
Answer- General term for any other tree not in pine family, like oaks and maples, and hickories, etc..
7. What was the biggest living tree in the world, in 1949?
Answer- The General Sherman Bigtree in the Sequoia National Park in California. It is 115 feet in circumference and 273 feet in height; and its volume is 600,120 board feet.
