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{{Infobox mythical creature
|name = Talking tree
|AKA           = 
|image         =  File:Iskandar (Alexander) and the Talking Tree, Folio from a Great Mongol Shahnameh.jpg
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|caption =  [[Iskandar (name)|Iskandar]] ([[Alexander the Great]]) and the Talking Tree, [[Folio]] from the [[Great Mongol Shahnameh]]. [[Freer Gallery of Art]]
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|Grouping      = [[Legendary creature]]
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|Country       = Worldwide
|Region        = Worldwide
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|Similar_entities = [[Dryad]]
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[[File:Tree on the Island of Waqwaq. Golconda, early 17th century Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.jpg|thumb|Tree on the [[al-Wakwak|Island of Waqwaq]]. [[Qutb Shahi dynasty|Golconda]], early 17th-century. [[Museum of Islamic Art, Berlin]]]]
'''Talking trees''' are a form of [[Sapience|sapient]] [[tree]]s in mythologies and stories.

Ben Bryne initially{{When|date=December 2018}} said that in [[Greek mythology]], all the trees in the [[Dodona]] (northwestern Greece, [[Epirus (region)|Epirus]]) grove (the forest beside the sanctuary of Zeus) became endowed with the gift of [[prophecy]], and the oaks not only spoke and delivered oracles while in a living state, but when built into the ship ''[[Argo]]'' the wood spoke and warned of approaching calamities.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JGsAAAAAMAAJ&dq=sacred+forest+of+Dodona&pg=PA78 Cultus Arborum 1890]</ref>