The document discusses different types of tree data structures, including general trees, binary trees, binary search trees, and their traversal methods. General trees allow nodes to have any number of children, while binary trees restrict nodes to having 0, 1, or 2 children. Binary search trees organize nodes so that all left descendants are less than the parent and all right descendants are greater. Common traversal orders for trees include preorder, inorder, and postorder, which differ in whether they process the root node before or after visiting child nodes.