L’Arbre du Ténéré

If the name doesn’t ring a bell, a pic­ture of L’Arbre du Ténéré may.

This soli­tary aca­cia, know as the Tree of Ténéré in Eng­lish, was long con­sid­ered to be the most iso­lated tree on Earth, sit­u­ated in the Sahara desert in north-east Niger. It was destroyed in 1973 by a drunk Libyan truck dri­ver and now resides in the Niger National Museum.

Wikipedia has a list of other ‘famous’ trees.