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Is it ever said what kind of tree the world tree was? By kind, I mean type. Is it: oak, laurel, plane, sequaia...?

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It's an ash tree

In e.g. Völuspá, stanza 19, this is explicitly stated:

An ash I know,
Yggdrasil its name ...

Translation: Henry Adams Bellow

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