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When the aspen trees of Colorado and Utah prepare for autumn, their leaves turn a dazzling golden yellow. but seen against the clarity of crisp blue mountain skies, their characteristically fluttering leaves shimmer with impossible intensity.

Aspens have developed a novel way to colonise and out-compete other species after fire has swept through. They don’t mess around making seeds and hoping something will disperse them, but instead rapidly clone themselves from shoots that appear from underground stems and roots.

Oddly, the best place to see brazil nut trees is in the forests of Bolivia. They’re massively tall with impossibly straight trunks – you’ll need binoculars to see its large white flowers.

The nuts (pedantically, seeds) are arranged like orange segments within an outer casing the size of a cricket ball, and tough enough to withstand hitting the ground at 60mph. Unless they’re found by humans first, agoutis (hefty local rodents) can gnaw through the casing and disperse the seeds.

Japan’s cherry blossom season - or hanami time - is one of the world’s great natural spectacles. Partly, this is because the blooms are so beautiful, and because the flowers appear well before the foliage.

The pinkish-white blossom is perfect, yet it is transient and therefore carries a wistfulness for which the Japanese have a special term, 'mono no aware'.

The trees are regarded almost reverentially and for the foreign visitor, hanami is an opportunity to affectionately observe the social etiquette of parties and work-outings that take place under the trees.

In India, you’re never far from a paan wallah: the vendor of little envelopes of betel vine leaves containing areca nut, slaked lime (the chemical, not the fruit) and a bespoke mixture of fragrant spices and potions.

Paan is typically used as a social lubricant or chewed as an after-dinner mouth cleanser. It turns alarmingly vermillion in the mouth and slowly blackens the teeth – which in Thailand used to be thought of as charming and beautiful.

Madagascar is a naturalist’s dream, because it hived off from the rest of Africa about 90 million years ago, long enough for its plants and animals to have evolved in their own, unique way.

The traveller’s tree gets its name from its breathtaking (and almost ridiculous) fan of leaves, which is reputed to orientate itself so consistently that it can be used as a compass.

In the snow, the improbably-white bark of Scandinavia and north-eastern Europe's birch trees is truly mesmerising. Strangely enough, the bark has evolved that way to reflect light – even trees can have too much of a good thing.

Like other trees, the birch lives with a fungal partner, whose microscopic filaments plug into the roots and fan out under the forest, hoovering up nutrients that tree roots can’t quite reach. In return, the tree keeps the fungus happy with sugars.

The towering kauris of the north island of New Zealand can grow to 150ft (45m) tall. They stand like ancient columns in the forest, their colossal mottled-grey trunks uninterrupted by branches until they’re well clear of the understory.

Resin from the trees, which occasionally drops off in lumps, accreted for thousands of years - that is, until entrepreneurs discovered in the late 19th century that it was the perfect ingredient for outdoor varnish.

The baobabs of central southern Africa are among the blobbiest trees around – so much so, in fact, that they look like they’ve been flung into the Earth upside down, their branches somehow too spindly for their huge girth.

Their trunks are like sponges, able to expand as they take up water in the rainy season, which attracts elephants. These great creatures are known to rip parts of the tree off in order to get a drink.

These trees have been named dragonblood because of their blood red sap. The sap is used as a dye and also as a violin varnish. Folk beliefs also consider it a cure for many illnesses. The tree itself looks like an umbrella.

These trees are huge and absolutely beautiful. They are 100 feet tall and 35 feet wide and can store up to 32,000 gallons of water in their trunks. We bet that you've never seen anything like these trees before.

At the Ashikaga Flower Park in Japan, you will find a wisteria tree which is 150 years old. If you look at it around the time when the tree is in full bloom, you would feel that you are in a fantasy world. Its vertical lavender flowers seem to be a picture in a fairytale movie. Don't believe us? Look for yourself.

Trees give us life. They give us fruits, wood, and flowers. They provide us shade from the sunlight. They are a constant source of delight and beauty to us. We are surrounded by many kinds of trees. But this article brings you something even more special. Here is a list of the 8 most beautiful trees in the world to make your day more colorful.