can anyone give me names of mythical forests?
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Must cultures' myths actually took place in real forests or just refered to generic forests; no made up names.  Since people seem to be focussing on written fiction instead, here's a short list of common made-up forests from AA Milne, L Frank Baum, JRR Tolkein, and Ian Livingstone.\n\nThe Hundred Acre Wood\nThe Great Forest (of Oz)\nThe Forest of Gugu\nBindbole Wood\nChetwood\nDimholt\nDrúadan Forest\nFangorn Forest\nFirien Wood\nLothlórien\nMirkwood\nThe Old Forest (on the Brandywine River)\nTrollshaws\nWoody End\nThe Forest of Doom\n\n\n\n(Sherwood Forest exists, by the way)
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The seven wonders of the Natural World are:\n    *  Angel Falls in Venezuela\n    * The Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia, Canada\n    * The Grand Canyon in Arizona, USA\n    * The Great Barrier Reef in Australia\n    * Iguassu Falls in Brazil/Argentina\n    * Krakatoa Island in Indonesia\n    * Mount Everest in Nepal\n    * Mount Fuji in Japan\n    * Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania\n    * Niagara Falls in Ontario (Canada) and New York State (USA)\n    * Paricutin Volcano in Mexico\n    * Victoria Falls in Zambia/Zimbabwe
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scientific names \nAralia quinquefolia = ginseng\nCarya alba = Hickory tree\n\ncommon name \narchangelica root = Angelica archangelica
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http://www.nsgc.org/consumer/familytree/tree_images.asp
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Weaver's bamboo?\n\nPhylum: Magnoliophyta\n\n<FIRST ANSWER AND THE BEST ONE TOO>\nPlease help me with 10 points as I've also helped you.
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A subartic forest is sometimes called a Boreal forest or taiga.
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Here are a couple of good, easy sites:\n\nhttp://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0197622.html\n\nhttp://www.online-mythology.com/
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Caipora\n\n    The caipora is a fantastic creature of the forest, in the Tupi-Guarani mythology: a giant creature, covered with dark hair, who always rides a large boar.\n\nCobra-Grande\n\n    The most powerful mythical creature of the rivers of the Amazon, also called boiúna or mboiaçu. The cobra-grande (large serpent) lives in the water and can take different shapes to frighten away the fishermen. See Iara below.\n\nCurupira\n\n    The curupira is also a fantastic creature of the forest, but he is short like a boy and his feet are reversed, with the toes pointing to the back. He is the protector of animals and trees, and according to the legend, will lead hunters and other invaders of his domain astray. In the state of São Paulo, the curupira is the official symbolic protector of the forests and all the animals that live in them.\n\nIara\n    Also known as "mãe d'água" (mother of the waters). According to Brazilian folklorists, Iara was not a siren, originally, but a water snake, also called mboiaçu - mboi, serpent and açu, big - in Tupi. In the 19th century, a process of convergence occurred, between the Amazonian water snake and the European myth of the beautiful half-human, half-fish creature who lures fishermen with her song. The Brazilian romantic poet Gonçalves Dias created the name, from the Tupi language of Brazil: ig - water - and iara - lord. The Afro-Brazilian orixá, Iemanjá, originally the Yoruba mother of all orixás and mother of the waters, is also represented as a beautiful siren. Her other name is Janaína. Iara and Janaína are very popular names for girls in Brazil. If you'd like to give your baby girl a Brazilian name...well, here are two of the most beautiful in the Portuguese language!\n\nNegrinho do Pastoreio\n\n    A legend of southern Brazil, the negrinho (little black shepherd) lost the horses he was looking after. His cruel master had the little boy whipped and thrown, bleeding, into an anthill, where he died. He came back, invisible, and rides his horse on remote hills. If you promise to light up a candle in his honor, he will help you find lost objects.\n\nSalamanca do Jarau\n\n    A legend of southern Brazil, the Salamanca is a cave full of treasures, looked after by a magical lizard called teiniaguá.\n\nSaci-Pererê\nThe saci or saci-pererê is a fantastic creature from south-central Brazil. The saci is a little boy, has only one leg, wears a magical red cap and likes to smoke a pipe. According to the legend, he is always up to some mischief: blowing out your fire, scaring and scattering your cattle, and scaring travellers in isolated, out-of-the-way places. Here we have the saci, as seen through the imagination of Brazilian cartoonist and author Ziraldo.\nhopefuly this is a help.we can into the detail of every creatures,but i suggest you read on those\npeace love
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Salaginella, Isoetes, Psilotum, Lepidodendron, Paurodendron, Equisetum, Pleuromeia, Nathorstiana, Phylloglossum, Tmesipteris, Pertica, Zosterophyllum, Psilophyton, Sawdonia, Horneophyton, Crooksonia, Rhynia, Aglaophyton, Onoclea, Todea, Osmunda\n\nMany of these are extinct.\n\nDon't listen to the first answer; fungi are not plants.\n\nGlad to see more people taking an interest in these things.\nThere is also a great book called "Primitive Land Plants," by F.O. Bower.
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Hercules (Greek myth)\nPerseus (Greek myth)\nGilgamesh (Sumerian myth)\nTobadzistsini (Navajo myth)\nSigurd (Norse myth)\nJason (Greek myth)
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"Prettiest" is a very subjective term.\n\nPersonally, I find that a fully mature American Elm tree is very pleasing.  One of the best shade trees you can have.  Sadly nearly wiped out in most of North America by Dutch Elm Disease.\n\nThe African Baobab is also very cool, with the massive central pillar that looks like it could withstand dinosaurs.\n\nHuge Douglas Fir and California Redwoods will fill you with awestruck majesty, especially when taken en masse in an ancient forest.  It's too bad there's so few of them left because someone decided they make nice picnic tables.\n\nBald Cypress in a deep florida or Louisiana swamp is another tree that will conjure images of dinosaurs.\n\nHeck, about the only tree I don't like is the Black Ash (Fraxinus niger) now that's an ugly tree.
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Try this.....\n\nhttp://www.rainforestweb.org/Rainforest_Regions/Asia/Malaysia/
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1.  cinder cone\n2.  Verne\n4.  extinct\n5.  basalt\n\nNOTE:  on 4, "dormant" only means asleep, not permanently inactive
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Sapele Tree :http://www.aikentimber.com/products/item.php3?id=17\n\n\nIroko Tree :\nhttp://www.onlinenigeria.com/links/ondostateadv.asp?blurb=343\n\nSorry could not find on Framerie trees..may be you can try Google Image option..\n\nBest luck!!!
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The Wollemi Pine:\n\nA very rare discovery ‘Dinosaur tree’ or ‘living fossil’, the Wollemi Pine is certainly one of the greatest botanical discoveries of our time.\n\nIn September 1994 David Noble, an officer with the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service, discovered some trees he didn’t quite recognise. In a deep, narrow canyon of the rugged Wollemi National Park, he discovered what we now call Wollemia nobilis or the Wollemi Pine.\n\nThe dramatic discovery of an evolutionary line thought to be long extinct is even more remarkable with these tall and striking trees growing only 150 km from Sydney, the largest city in Australia. They were found in the extremely rugged Wollemi National Park, a largely undisturbed wilderness area.\n\nIt’s rare, it’s endangered, it’s strange looking, and at first we didn’t know all that much about it. Now we know a lot more — click on a topic of interest at the left to find out more. \n\nThe worldwide demand for this plant has been enormous. Research into the horticultural development of the Wollemi Pine is being conducted at Mount Annan Botanic Garden.\n\nJust how old is a Wollemi Pine?\n\nTo determine the age of the Wollemi Pine trees, a scientific team cut cross-sections from one of the fallen trunks (a large mature, 35–40 metre trunk) at the original site in Wollemi National Park, and sent them to the Australian National University Forestry Department for analysis.\n\nOne of the most intriguing things that can’t be determined, due to coppicing (the unusual branching habit which leads to old Wollemi Pines having many separate trunks — see appearance) is how old the original tree was before this particular trunk was produced. It may have been hundreds, or perhaps thousands of years since it was a seedling.\n\nBy counting the growth rings from cross-sections of the trunk and combining this with carbon dating, the best estimate for this sample trunk is about 350 years old — research is being conducted on determining its age. This means that this trunk started growing around 1650!
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http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/Live_site/curriculum/lm19/activity2.dwt\n\nhttp://45.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GE/GERMAN_EAST_AFRICA.htm\n\nthe subalpine world of tropical east africa\nText and photographs by Gary C. Williams, South African Museum\nSagittarius Volume 3, number 2  1988\n\nIn the equatorial highlands of East Africa's towering volcanoes and rugged rift ranges is a zone of subalpine vegetation known to ecologists and plant geographers as the elfinwood. A naturalist entering the elfinwood for the first time is intrigued by this fairyland-like setting; the dwarfed and contorted growth of trees, dangling moisture-laden mosses and lichens, grotesquely gigantic herbs, lush green ground-cover mixed with brilliant blossoms, and general lack of sounds (except for those of the pervasive winds). These combine to produce an almost surrealistic impression. Elfinwoods are unique not only in their general appearance, but also in their remoteness. They are tucked away on the isolated slopes and ridges of certain high mountains in the world's tropical zone, are thus very restricted in range and are encountered nowhere else on earth. Indeed, elfin forests are rare areas of the world's rapidly shrinking natural environment.\n\nThe elfinwood forest is so named because of its low stature and often dwarfed or contorted appearance of its trees when compared to the lofty and majestic high-canopy rain forests of lower elevations. Similar vegetation belts occur in the northern Andean highlands of South America and on isolated Austronesian peaks of Borneo, Java and New Guinea. The elfinwood forms a characteristic but highly localized plant community in the subalpine zone of these widely distributed equatorial mountains.\n\nSince the unique elfinwood ecosystem is not found in North America or Europe, most temperate-zone travellers who first encounter this equatorial subalpine world, marvel at its exotic and strange aspects which are so foreign in appearance to the unaccustomed observer.\n\ndwarfs and giants in the elfinwood\nThe elfinwood is also known to biologists by a host of other names: equatorial elfin forest, ericoid scrub forest, alpinoid forest, moss forest, upland forest, subalpine pygmy forest, and afromontane cloud forest are among the elaborate names applied to this vegetation zone.\n\nActually, 'elfinwood' is a somewhat misleading term. Although many plants of the upper limits of this zone do indeed owe their dwarfed and tortuous aspects to the inhibiting effects of high altitude terrain such as rugged and steep topography, poor rocky soils, and high winds, several species in some areas of the elfinwood are not dwarfed trees at all, but rather have evolved as gigantic tree-like forms from small, herbaceous (non-woody, perennial plants) or shrubby ancestors. When compared to the straight and tall upper canopy trees of the lowland rain forest, however, these giant 'woody herbs' and shrubs sometimes appear as dwarfed trees. The availability of the arboreal niche (or tree form of growth) in protected, isolated, high-altitude locations and the consistently cool, wet, uniform climate have presumably allowed for this evolutionary trend in a number of elfinwood plants.\n\nThis form of gigantism is known as 'insular woodiness' and usually applies to evolution on oceanic islands but can equally apply to high mountains in equatorial regions. These highland areas can be thought of as temperate islands in a tropical sea. That is, the tropical lowlands act as effective barriers to isolate the temperate plants and animals of equatorial mountains just as the seas isolate the inhabitants of oceanic islands.\n\nThe elfinwood vegetational zones of such widely separated biogeographical regions as Africa, South America, and the East Indies are superficially quite similar in appearance and are known as 'convergent communities'. The growth habits of the various plants inhabiting these subalpine woodland
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See links, below.\nLink 1=ruins\nlink 2=gods