You are being pro­vid­ed with a book chap­ter by chap­ter. I will request you to read the book for me after each chap­ter. After read­ing the chap­ter, 1. short­en the chap­ter to no less than 300 words and no more than 400 words. 2. Do not change the name, address, or any impor­tant nouns in the chap­ter. 3. Do not trans­late the orig­i­nal lan­guage. 4. Keep the same style as the orig­i­nal chap­ter, keep it con­sis­tent through­out the chap­ter. Your reply must com­ply with all four require­ments, or it’s invalid.
I will pro­vide the chap­ter now.

REDWOODS, OAKS, AND PALMS
 
�       A tree is defined as a plant that has a long stem or trunk. So, it’s the
trunk that sep­a­rates trees from bush­es, flow­ers, and oth­er plants.
 
�            There are about three tril­lion trees on Earth, which comes to about
420 trees per per­son. Forests cov­er about 30% of the Earth’s sur­face.
 
�       The most famous tree in the world is the Bod­hi Tree, locat­ed in Bodh
Gaya, India. Bud­dhists believe that the Bod­hi Tree is the place where
Bud­dha received enlight­en­ment.
 
�       Trees are sper­mato­phyte or seed-bear­ing plants. It may seem strange,
but trees’ sex­u­al organs are vis­i­ble (phanerogam) — their flow­ers!
 
�       Red­wood trees are actu­al­ly mem­bers of the Sequoioideae sub-fam­i­ly
of the Cupres­saceae fam­i­ly. They are the largest and tallest trees in the
world.
 
�            A bore­al for­est is a pine for­est in the north­ern lat­i­tudes that is often
known by the Russ­ian term, taiga. There are no nat­ur­al bore­al forests
in the South­ern Hemi­sphere.
 
�            Oak trees are mem­bers of the beech fam­i­ly. With more than 500
species, oaks are most abun­dant in North Amer­i­ca: Mex­i­co has about
160 species and there are about 90 in the US.
 
�       Methuse­lah is the name of a Great Basin bristle­cone pine tree in Inyo
Coun­ty, Cal­i­for­nia that’s believed to be the old­est in the world at
4,853 years old!
 
�            More than half of the world’s forests are with­in the bor­ders of
Rus­sia, Chi­na, the Unit­ed States, Brazil, and Cana­da. In con­trast, the
sov­er­eign states of Vat­i­can City, Mona­co, and Nau­ru have no forests.
 
�            Hard­core Uni­ver­si­ty of Alaba­ma fan, Har­vey Updyke, poi­soned the
oak trees on rival Auburn University’s cam­pus in 2013. The “prank”
got Updyke six months in jail.
 
�            Size isn’t every­thing. Although trees tend to be big­ger than bush­es,
this isn’t always the case. The pri­ma­ry dif­fer­ence is that bush­es don’t
have a sin­gle trunk.
 
�            Unfor­tu­nate­ly, about 15 bil­lion trees are cut down annu­al­ly on the
plan­et. For­tu­nate­ly, at the cur­rent rate, it will take about 200 years to
cut down every tree on the plan­et.
 
�            “For­est bathing” is a form of nat­ur­al men­tal health ther­a­py where a
per­son sim­ply spends time in forests. The activ­i­ty is offi­cial­ly
sanc­tioned by the Japan­ese gov­ern­ment, which calls it shin­rin-yoku.
 
�            A rain­for­est is defined as a for­est that has a con­tin­u­ous canopy,
veg­e­ta­tion that’s depen­dent on high lev­els of mois­ture, and
has epi­phytes and lianas. Rain forests can be trop­i­cal or tem­per­ate.
 
�       Accord­ing to geol­o­gy, the Earth is about 4.5 bil­lion years old, but it
wasn’t until about 385 mil­lion years ago that the first true trees
evolved.
 
�            You may think of Aus­tralia as almost entire­ly deserts and beach­es,
but that’s only part of the pic­ture. Forests cov­er about 19% of
Australia’s land area.
 
�       A sin­gle cot­ton­wood tree can release 40 mil­lion seeds in one sea­son.
The seeds can then float through the air for days, much longer than
any oth­er type of seed.
 
�            In Norse/Viking mythol­o­gy, Yggdrasil was the name of a giant tree
of life. Yggdrasil formed the trunk around which the worlds of
humans, gods, and giants were based.