8. Raintree.
The broadest-crowned trees in the world are: first, a coolibah in Australia; second, an oriental plane in England. For pure aesthetics, though, you cannot beat the third broadest, which is a raintree in Venezuela, because it is so much wider than it is tall. With a native range from Mexico to Peru, it has been exported to tropical areas around the world. It’s called raintree because of the sensation of rain one gets standing under the canopy, which is from the honeydew excreted by cicadas. Ewww.