I discovered the answers to my first post:
*If we aid a city manually and plant a tree a message says "You have planted a tree. If aiding from Town Hall an icon of an apple will float up.
*When someone plants a tree in our cities there is a notice in Town Hall.
sir lance - I have a notice that someone planted a tree in my city but, so far, haven't found it either. I just rebooted to see if that would help.
Thanks Czari, I just rebooted as well and it made no difference, also others I just spoken to as well have same issue, no trees.
The trees are REALLY hard to find. They are the same size as the ones already in your wilderness, you have to look for the apples on the ground around the tree and in the tree. The apples are near specks so get your magnifying glasses out to see them. This is going to be irritating...
I noticed a few things in beta that might be helpful:
Apple trees are always the same type of tree; once you get one, just look for that shape, and goldish greeny leaves and ignore solid green leafed trees and trees with other types of canopies. If you're on a PC, you can run your mouse over likely trees, and you'll get a popup. They do tend to spawn in the same places repeatedly and do not seem to show up immediately. Refreshing helps, but give it a few minutes. I've never found more than 5 trees at a go, even when my event history shows there should be more; refresh and they'll be there.
I have found trees in the 4 cities I'm playing, they are hard to see so you may want to set your zoom higher while searching for them, also the ones I have found have been at the top center or left center.Anyone actually found trees yet? I also don't seem to have any, despite what the event log says.
I've been doing this for an hour and I'm tired already. LOL