The shortlisted trees for Scotland are:

The Beauly Sycamore, Beauly, is a huge tree which has stood for several centuries, dominating the ruins of Beauly Priory, a site Mary Queen of Scots visited in 1564 on her way to Dingwall.

The Big Tree, Kirkwall, Orkney, is a 200-year-old sycamore which is a well-known and much-loved landmark, used as a meeting place by generations of Orcadians, saved twice from felling by public outcry.

The Carnegie Oak in Pittencrieff Park, Dunfermline, was planted in 1904 by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, who lived as a boy within a stone’s throw of the park. He went on to become one of the richest men in the world and gave Pittencrieff Glen to the people of Dunfermline.

David McCabe’s Spruce, Crieff, was a sapling pulled from the mud of no-man’s-land at Passchendaele by Lieutenant David McCabe and sent home to his father in Perthshire. David died from wounds in 1917 and never returned to see one of the young trees grow to maturity.

The Greenock Cut Oak is passed by thousands of people completing the Greenock Cut Trail every year. It is an ambassador for Shielhill Glen Site of Special Scientific Interest and an outdoor classroom.

The Old Holly Bush, Castle Fraser, is one of the oldest holly trees in Scotland and has a girth of 3.17m (10ft 5in), and stands on what is believed to have been the edge of a 17th Century enclosed garden that was surrounded by a holly hedge rather than a wall.