How Many Tree Species Are There?
2 min readAug 14, 2022
The actual number is way more than what we expected.
How many trees do you know about? Or how many types of those have you heard of? 10–20 or maybe up to 500 if you are an adventurer. But do you know how many tree species are there?
The global Forest Biodiversity Initiative (GFBI) database has annotated about 28,000 tree species, while some studies indicate there could be around…
