The world’s loneliest tree has no other tree for 400 kilometers across the Sahara Desert and has roots more than 30 meters deep to reach hidden groundwater, then was knocked down by a drunk truck driver and survived for 300 years | World News
Deep in the Tenere Desert of Niger once stood what was widely regarded as the world’s loneliest tree, the Acacia parasol, which survived for some 300 years despite the fact that there were no other trees within a radius of about 400 kilometers.…