Today, about 3.04 trillion grow on Earth. trees. Among them there are both ordinary medium-sized specimens and real giants with spreading crowns and powerful branches. So which trees are considered the tallest on the planet, and where exactly are they located?
This majestic plant, reaching 112.20 m in height and 4.19 m in diameter, belongs to the species Sequoia sempervirens, or Evergreen (Red) Sequoia. Mendocino is located in California's Montgomery Woods Park, one of the natural reserves of the United States of America. Previously, from 1996 to 2000, the tree was considered the tallest in the whole world, although conservationists did not intentionally award it this title.
It is important! All plants on this list represent the same species - Sequoia sempervirens (evergreen or red sequoias).
The specialists who discovered unique woody specimens, in principle, tried not to tell the general public about their findings, so as not to endanger them due to the sharp influx of tourists. Because The location of Mendocino is currently known, members of environmental organizations have to protect the plant in order to provide it normal conditions for life, growth and development.
The paradox already reaches 112.56 m in height and 3.90 m in diameter. One of the tallest trees on the planet also grows in the United States of America, more precisely in the John Rockefeller Forest, Humboldt City, Kittson County, Minnesota.
From 1995 to 1996, Paradox was considered the main green "giant" on Earth. It is important to understand here that the scientific community evaluates not only the height, but also the diameter of the trunk, and because In 1996, Mendocino was discovered, which overtook Paradox in this indicator, then the title of “the tallest and largest tree in the world” passed to it.
Although one title has been lost, this sequoia still continues to be considered the most beautiful specimen among other tree giants.
Next comes another large and majestic tree native to America, which reaches a height of 112.6 m. The diameter of the plant has never been accurately determined. Rockefeller is located not far from Paradox - all in the same Humboldt Redwoods National Park, in the Rockefeller Forest.
John Rockefeller (1839-1937) was an American entrepreneur, philanthropist and the first official dollar billionaire in history, and today the world’s largest virgin sequoia forest is named after him, where humans are prohibited from carrying out any destructive activities.
As is the case with many of the world's largest trees, the exact coordinates of Rockefeller's location are not disclosed, so finding it is a real success for a tourist!
This evergreen sequoia reaches a height of 112.62 m and also grows in the Humboldt Redwoods Park. The trunk diameter is 4.54 m. Lauralin has become the center of a completely independent ecological system. Birds flutter tirelessly around the plant, creating their own nests on the branches and in the recesses. There are many insects on the ground around, and the presence of lichen, parmelia, and moss is noted on the trunk.
Interestingly, conservationists decided not to classify information about where exactly this tallest tree in the world is located - Lauralin can be found near the South Fork Eel River.
Orion's height is already 112.63 m, and its diameter is 4.33 m. To accurately determine the size of this giant, scientists needed to turn to the latest laser equipment!
If by some miracle a person stumbles upon Orion, the location of which is kept secret, he will hardly realize that he is seeing with his own eyes the longest tree in the world. The giant is surrounded by other redwood trees, so when looking up from below, its majesty is almost impossible to appreciate. But from a bird's eye view, it becomes clear that Orion towers about 2 times higher than everything that surrounds it in Redwood Park. The plant is 1500 years old.
This is interesting! Research and measurements of evergreen sequoias are allowed only in early autumn. At any other time of the year, rare birds nest on them, which are protected by the Red Books. It is not allowed to disturb animals during such periods.
National Geographic Community
A tree that has an interesting and unusual name, reaches 112.71 m in height and 4.39 m in diameter and is located next to the Redwood Creek in the already famous American Redwood Park, California.
The National Geographic Community, discovered back in 1994, has a very advantageous location - right next to the water in an inaccessible area. Even if some curious traveler finds out where exactly this very thing is located a big tree in the world, he can hardly reach it.
At the time of discovery in 2000, this giant reached a height of 112.34 m, and at the time of measurements in 2010 - already 113.11 m, and the tree continued to grow actively. He was just a little short of being included in the honorable top three of this rating.
The Stratosphere Giant is located in the Rockefeller Forest of the Humboldt Redwoods Park. It owes its preservation to other trees that grow nearby and block the unique specimen, thereby preventing to an ordinary person appreciate its majesty and scale from the ground.
The crown of another tall sequoia sways at a distance of 113.14 m from the ground. The diameter of the plant is 3.78 m. Icarus topped the list of green giants from 2005 to 2006, until other specimens were discovered - Helios and Hyperion.
Icarus was so named because of its sun-bleached upper part. And yet even this characteristic feature will not help tourists and travelers find the giant, because, firstly, it grows surrounded by other trees with similar “dead” tops, and, secondly, it is located where people almost never wandered, which ensured its stable growth and preservation until now.
Icarus continues to grow, especially favored by the climate of Redwood Park. There is plenty of light, warmth and damp mists, while there are no winds due to the presence of mountain ranges and hills. All this has a positive effect on sequoias and explains why so many giant plants are found in California.
In the period from June 1, 2005 to August 25, 2006, the world did not know a single plant that could compare with the size of Helios. However, Hyperion was soon found on the opposite side of Redwood Creek.
The top ten tallest trees on the planet are headed by Hyperion, located in Redwood. Its height reaches 115.61 m, and its trunk diameter is 4.84 m. The thickness of the bark is 30 cm.
The plant was discovered by resourceful biologists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor. It is believed that Hyperion has existed on Earth for about 800 years, so in order to protect such an ancient and unique specimen, it was decided not to publish the exact coordinates of its location.
Scientists do not risk establishing the exact age, because They are afraid of damaging the plant. Botanists can only wait until it dies on its own - only after that will they be able to count the annual rings and say how long the giant actually lived.
It is unknown whether the plant will retain its gold medal title. The fact is that the top of Hyperion was significantly damaged by woodpeckers, so in the future it may be overtaken by Helios, growing faster and more actively. The first one stretches only 3-4 cm per year, while the second one - 4-5 cm.
What about in Russia?
Despite the fact that in Russia there is no official botanical register of the tallest trees, even here it is possible to highlight individual specimens that deserve attention.
In particular, we're talking about about the species Nordman Fir, genus Fir, family Pine. The trees owe their name to Alexander von Nordmann (1803-1866), a Finnish and Russian paleontologist, zoologist, and botanist. Found in the Krasnodar Territory, these giants, under favorable conditions, climatic conditions can reach up to 80 m in height, while usually they grow up to 50-60 m. Life expectancy is up to 500 years.
Magnificent and unique. There are truly incredible specimens that amaze with their age, size, extraordinary appearance and legendary fate. It is very difficult to choose just ten of the most amazing trees in the world, but, unfortunately, we are limited to the scope of this article. Among the plants remained silent witnesses to global tragedies, the rise and fall of entire civilizations, wars, and climate change. These wise, huge creatures - the largest and oldest trees - have been reaching out to the sun for thousands of years and quietly contemplating the restless world around them.
Giant trees can be found on almost all continents. They are impressive and amaze with their size. Being next to such an unusual plant is a real miracle, reminding people of how small their role is compared to the vast world.
Pando Tree
Pando, nicknamed the Trembling Giant, amazes the imagination with its area, age and weight... Indeed, this is the largest tree in the world! Pando Grove is a colossal forest of fifty thousand aspen poplar trunks, which, surprisingly, is one plant with a single root system. All trees are parts of a giant living organism that weighs 6,600 tons and covers an area of 43 hectares. The age of the Giant Pando is estimated by researchers at 80 thousand years. This unique forest tree grows in the USA, near the Colorado Plateau, Utah.
Sequoia General Sherman
The General Sherman Sequoia is the largest free-standing tree in the world by volume and is 2,000 years old. The girth of the trunk of the ancient giant is almost 25 meters, and the crown is 33 meters. This sequoia has already reached almost 85 meters in height, and it is still growing. One can only guess what it will be like in, say, a thousand years. The giant sequoia grows in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, USA.
Thule tree
Tule is the largest tree in the world by trunk girth. The curiosity is located in the immediate vicinity of the city of Oaxaca, Mexico. The circumference of the giant plant is 58 meters at the foot, and its age is from one and a half to six thousand years. It was once believed that there were three trees, but recent DNA analysis has refuted this assumption.
Hyperion
In the Redwoods region (USA, California), the largest tree in the world grows in height, which already reaches 115 meters. They named him Hyperion. The location of the giant is carefully hidden. Scientists fear that frequent visits could destroy the surrounding ecosystem and damage the health of the plant, which is conservatively estimated to be 800 years old.
Great Banyan
The Great Banyan is a tree consisting of many interlacing trunks and has the largest crown in the world (its circumference is approximately 350 meters). It grows in India, the city of Howrah. The Great Banyan Tree is estimated to be 250 years old. This plant of the species Ficus benghalensis (Ficus Bengal) is more reminiscent of a small grove, and all because of the huge number of roots protruding from the ground and clones that have separated from the main trunk.
Methuselah
One very ancient tree of the type Long-lasting pine was named after the biblical prophet; according to other sources, intermontane spinosa. The long-lived plant is almost 5 thousand years old. Outwardly, it is practically unremarkable, but scientists believe that it is the oldest tree in the world. To protect the rarity from vandals, it was necessary to hide its exact location. We only know that this is the Inyo National Forest, USA, California.
Hundred Horse Chestnut
The oldest chestnut tree that grows on the slope of Etna is about 3 thousand years old. Among its “relatives” it is considered the largest. This plant is even associated with a beautiful legend about Giovanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples, who, together with a hundred knights and their war horses guarding her, was able to wait out the rain under the spreading thick crown.
Dragon Tree
The island of Tenerife has a unique appearance Dragon Tree. Scientists still cannot accurately determine its age, because this miracle of nature does not have a trunk as such. The tree is held together by the finest interweaving of many stems, which firmly cling to each other and form something like a column. Above this makeshift trunk there is a dense canopy of leaves. The plant secretes a resinous sap when its leaves and bark are cut, which locals call dragon's blood. The tree is considered healing and is actively used in folk medicine.
Pirangi tree
In the vicinity of the city of Natal (Brazil) you can find an unusual cashew tree, which, as a result of a long-standing mutation, has grown by as much as 2 hectares over 127 years of life. As soon as a branch that bends to the ground touches the soil, it takes root and turns into another trunk of this single forest. Farmers claim that this magnificent tree bears more than 80 thousand fruits annually.
The tree of Life
In the very center of the Bahrain desert, in the middle of the hot sands without any signs of vegetation, for the past 400 years there has been a lonely acacia tree, which is called the Tree of Life. No one can say for sure how this plant can exist for several centuries without visible sources of life-giving moisture and normal soil. Some claim that this acacia comes from the mythical Eden and has special powers.
All of the largest trees in the world listed in our article deserve to be included in the Guinness Book of Records. Each of them has something to brag about: some amaze with their height, others with their age or wondrous beauty, and still others with their incredible resilience and desire to survive. But they all share one common quality - these giants support in people the ability to be amazed at the wonders of our incomparable planet.
The General Sherman Tree is located in Sequoia National Park in the USA, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains (California).
This tree is also the largest living creature on the planet.
The height of the giant General Sherman tree is more than 83 meters, the circumference of its trunk is more than 24 meters, and the circumference of its crown is as much as 33 meters.
In the nineteenth century, explorer John Muir called the area where the famous tree grows the “Giant Forest” when he discovered giant sequoias. The name of this part of the park, "Giant Forest", remains to this day. Many tourists describe the General Sherman tree, which is striking in its size, as a red-orange “rock”, the top of which is impossible to see.
Tourists specially come to the park to see the General Sherman tree, named after the hero civil war General William Sherman, and take a photo. Next to the sequoia they seem so fragile and small.
For a long time it was believed that the General Sherman tree was over three thousand years old, but recent research has determined its exact age - exactly two thousand years. This means that this is not the oldest tree in the world.
The oldest tree in the world, a special species of California pine, was 4,484 years old when it was cut down in 1965. Sequoia trees, which were about 3,000 years old, were also cut down. It is believed that 5,000 trees still exist on Earth.
In the winter of 2006, the General Sherman tree lost part of its crown, the largest branch of the tree fell off, the diameter of which was about two meters and the length was about 30 meters
When the branches fell to the ground, the fence around the tree and the road leading to it were destroyed. Even after this, General Sherman's tree did not lose its status as the largest tree on the planet.
There is a special path leading to General Sherman's tree, and even people with disabilities can see this miracle. At the end of the path there are brick tiles, which show where the roots of the tree reach.
Each year the giant's trunk grows nearly 1.5 cm in diameter. The General Sherman Tree is still growing and, according to the California State Park website, is adding enough wood each year to fill a five or six-room house.
On Earth there are very a large number of tall trees. In different parts of the world there are trees that are called the tallest on the planet. In some cases, the sizes are exaggerated, but there are also trees that amaze the imagination with their dimensions. With the advent of new height measurement tools, more reliable information is becoming available about the true size of the world's largest trees.
Thanks to modern technology, people were able to measure the true height of these colossi flora. Laser-based rangefinders, falling tape meters, etc. were used for measurement. Researchers have managed to formulate the ten tallest trees in the world, which are so huge that taking a full-length photo of them can only be done by climbing to a certain height. Many of these giants continue to grow.
Tallest tree in the world
The location of many trees remains a secret, so finding photos of them is very difficult. Despite the fact that Hyperion is the tallest tree in the world, its mass is far from the most impressive. According to this indicator, the colossal sequoia General Sherman is beyond competition. Despite the relatively low height (83.8 m), the General has a record weight of 1.9 thousand tons with a trunk volume of a phenomenal 1.5 thousand. square meters. Scientists are confident that the General Sherman sequoia is at least 2.7 thousand years old.
Mendocino ranks tenth
Mendocino is one of the largest trees in America
A huge sequoia with a height of 112.2 m is located in the Montgomery Woods Nature Reserve in the United States. From 1996 to 2000 Mendocino was considered the tallest tree on the planet. There are quite a few redwoods growing not far from the giant, but compared to Mendocino they look like a kindergarten teacher kindergarten surrounded by children.
Paradox - ninth on the list
Paradox, height 112.5 meters
A tree 112.5 m high, located in forest area, owned by billionaire J. Rockefeller near the town of Humboldt (USA). The diameter of the Paradox trunk is 3.9 m, which is slightly less than that of Mendocino (4.19 m). Sequoia was discovered by accident; researchers who first saw the tree were amazed by its beauty. Paradox rises majestically above the forest, under its thick crown a company of soldiers can hide in the shadows.
Rockefeller - ranks eighth in the ranking
Rockefeller takes 8th position in the ranking
Another giant tree associated with a famous billionaire. Rockefeller is a 112.6 m tall sequoia located relatively close to Paradox in the Humboldt Redwood National Forest. The name in honor of the billionaire is symbolic - the tree is very old, just like the entrepreneur, respected in the United States.
Sequoia is distinguished by its height, slenderness and density of crown. Those who were lucky enough to see Rockefeller remembered him for the rest of their lives. By the way, seeing a tree is not so easy - the coordinates of all the colossi of the plant world are classified: this is one of the most effective ways protect them from vandals. If a person walks through the park, he simply will not understand that in front of him is a giant. In terms of trunk thickness, the famous sequoia is not much different from its surrounding counterparts.
Lauralin - is in the seventh position of the top
Southern giant Lauralin
Sequoia with a romantic name and an impressive height of 112.62 m. This giant, like the previous one, “lives” in the American Humboldt National Park. The gigantic tree was found by biologists P. Zinke and E. Stragenburger. The researchers were amazed by the incredible beauty of the tree, which in fact represents a complete ecological system. From the roots to the crown, Lauralin is home to a wide variety of living creatures. Hares live at its foot, squirrels live in hollows on the middle floors, and birds build nests on the branches. In addition, the Lauralina ecosystem includes many species of lichens and insects.
This giant sequoia is not hidden from the public: those visiting Humboldt Park are sure to come to see the amazing tree.
Orion - a giant sequoia in sixth place
Orion - tree height is 112.63 meters
In the very center national reserve Redwood (California, USA) grows a gigantic sequoia called Orion. The height of this amazing creation of Mother Nature is 112.63 m. Orion was carefully hidden from prying eyes; it was very difficult to find him. The fact is that the giant is located next to two other huge sequoias: each of these trees is 2 times lower than Orion, but they are in no way inferior to it in thickness. You can only see the colossal difference between the sequoias from a considerable height. Orion is one of oldest trees on earth, its age is 1.5 thousand years.
National Geographic Society - in fifth place
NGO. The height of the tree is 112.71 m.
A giant sequoia named after a United States NGO. The giant was discovered in the Redwood Creek valley in 1994. For a year, the tree was considered the tallest in the world. The exact coordinates of the gigantic plant are classified. The trunk diameter is 0.20 m larger than that of Mendocino.
Stratospheric giant - fourth on the list
The height of this giant was 113.11 m.
An impressive tree that looks like a huge skyscraper. The scientists who discovered this sequoia were amazed by its height: it seemed to the researchers that the tree was touching the clouds with its branches. Hence the name of the plant colossus.
The stratospheric giant was found in 2000 in Humboldt National Park - this nature reserve famous for its record-breaking sequoias.
At the time of discovery, the tree had a height of 112.34 m, but its growth continued. In 2010, scientists re-measured the height of the sequoia. It turned out that the Stratospheric Giant had increased in height: its height was 113.11 m. The tree is surrounded by large fellows and it is only possible to understand how huge it is from above. The coordinates of the Stratospheric Giant are being hidden: this is how scientists are trying to protect the sequoia from vandalism.
Icarus took third position in the ranking
Icarus reaches 113.4 meters
Finally, we got to the top three. The famous sequoia Icarus has risen to the third place in the ranking. The tree was found by researchers M. Taylor and K. Atkins, who wandered around the California Redwood Park for several days.
Biologists noticed that the top of the sequoia was dry, as if it had been burnt out in the sun. Atkins recalled the Greek myth of Icarus, a young man who decided to fly to the sun but was burned along the way. This is how the tree got its name.
However, almost any tree in Redwood Park can be called Icarus. Due to solar activity, many of the redwood trees in the reserve have dead tops. Actually, “Redwood” is translated from English as “Red Forest”.
Finding Icarus on your own is problematic, and its coordinates are carefully classified.
Helios is second in the ranking list
Helios reaches 114.58 m.
In the summer of 2006, K. Atkins and M. Taylor undertook another research expedition in the Red Forest. Surprisingly, researchers were able to discover another giant sequoia. It was a 114.58 m tall tree. Shocked, Taylor and Atkins named the sequoia Helios in honor of the ancient Greek god of the Sun. This tree is only slightly inferior to the leader of our rating.
Hyperion is the tallest tree in the world and is in the top number one
Hyperion holds the record for all the tallest trees on the planet
So, we got to the tallest tree in the world. This is a unique Hyperion sequoia, growing in the same Redwood Park. Surprisingly, the restless K. Atkins and M. Taylor discovered Hyperion. After measuring the tree, it became clear that this incredible giant is a world record holder. Hyperion's parameters are amazing:
- height – 115.61 m;
- trunk diameter – 5 m.
Scientists believe that the age of the colossus is 800 years.
Chris and Michael are confident that the Hyperion sequoia could achieve even more greater height, but the tree was attacked by woodpeckers. A huge number of birds settled in the branches of the giant plant, damaging the trunk. Despite the titanic power of the tree, the woodpeckers turned out to be stronger - the growth of the sequoia slowed down.
Video: the tallest sequoia tree from the cypress family
Sensation: despite gigantic size The leaves of the tree reach only 2 cm in length, and the root in the ground reaches only half a meter!
Sequoia is the tallest tree species in the world
Readers have already realized that the tallest tree in the world is the sequoia. This species is also called “mahogany”. Douglas firs (another name is “pretty fir”), as well as Australian eucalyptus trees, could compete with these colossi. Unfortunately, the tallest representatives of these two species were destroyed.
Sequoia Hyperion could also go under the saw, but in the 70s. In the 20th century, American authorities drew attention to the outrages of loggers in Redwood National Park and cutting down redwood trees in this area was strictly prohibited. Severe sanctions began to be applied to black lumberjacks, fined and even sent to prison.
The measures worked: in our time, many gigantic sequoias grow in the “Red Forest”. According to scientists' latest estimates, there are 100 trees in the Redwoods that are more than 100 meters tall. All of these are sequoias; representatives of other species, unfortunately, do not overcome the hundred-meter mark.
Until the summer of 2006, the status of the tallest tree in the world was held by the “Stratospheric Giant” sequoia in Humboldt Park. This colossus is twice the size of the Statue of Liberty.
It seemed that the tree simply could not be taller, but biologists K. Atkins and M. Taylor proved that this is far from true. Wandering through California's Redwood Park, they discovered a group giant trees, among which was an incredible colossus that looked like a skyscraper. After measurements with laser equipment, it turned out that the found tree was almost a meter taller than the “Stratospheric Giant”. Moreover, the nearby “comrades” of the giant also exceeded the size of the previous record holder of the plant world.
The tallest tree in the world is called Hyperion. This colossus is almost 30 meters higher than London's Big Ben.
The measurement of Hyperion was carried out by ecologist Steve Sillett, seconded to Redwood Park by National University. Humboldt. Sillett, using climbing equipment, climbed to the top of the sequoia and lowered the tape from there. The NG television company recorded what was happening on film: the film can be viewed on the Internet. After measuring the tape, it turned out that the height of the tree is 115 meters.
Hyperion can be called a lucky tree. In the seventies of the last century, Redwood was an ordinary forest in which lumberjacks operated with might and main. Gigantic pines fell one after another, they were sawed into fragments and taken away on large trucks. Hyperion was scheduled to be cut down, but about 2 weeks before the colossus was to be defeated, the US government declared Redwood a national park.
The sawmills knew full well that Redwood was being recognized as a park, so they worked tirelessly with their chainsaws. Sequoia wood is one of the most valuable in the wood processing industry; companies received hundreds of thousands of dollars for one giant cut down.
Trees, many of which were hundreds of years old, were destroyed on an industrial scale. People could well have destroyed one of the undoubted treasures of humanity - the Redwood redwood forest.
Unfortunately, hundreds and even thousands of trees have not been as lucky as Hyperion. Currently, redwood forests account for only 4% of all green areas in the United States.
Hyperion is quite young for a plant of its kind: this tree has not yet finished growing. According to Sillett, the giant is no more than 800 years old (for comparison, the Orion sequoia has been on our planet for 1.5 thousand years).
Compared to human life, Hyperion is now 20 years old, in fact, it is a youth tree. The caretakers of Redwood Park have strictly kept the giant's coordinates secret. American scientists hope that the young tree will continue its growth, setting new incredible records.
In addition, tourist trips to Hyperion will certainly lead to disruption of the Redwood forest ecosystem. The tree itself will also suffer: surely among tourists there will be those who like to put a “memorable” inscription on the tree or chop off a piece of bark.
According to Sillett, redwoods are a kind of “movie stars”, but they cannot escape from the paparazzi like their human counterparts. History has already shown that the popularity of giant sequoias leads to sad consequences.
History of measurements of giant trees
It is impossible to say whether Hyperion is the tallest tree of the last 100-200 years. People began to become interested in this topic relatively recently and no data has been preserved. In addition, 96% of redwood trees are destroyed by logging companies.
In 1872, William Ferguson, an employee of the Australian State Forestry Inspectorate, informed the authorities about the discovery of a fallen Eucalyptus regnans (the regal eucalyptus, a close relative of the familiar mountain ash). The tree had colossal dimensions. The visiting scientists took measurements and reported that the length of the eucalyptus was 132 meters.
After this, several more eucalyptus trees up to 140 meters high were found in Australia. Unfortunately, there is no way to confirm this data: the gigantic trees were cut down by loggers.
Eucalyptus wood turned out to be almost the only building material for Australian settlers.
There are almost no eucalyptus trees left in Australia these days, but they are found in Tasmania. For example, the famous Centurion eucalyptus is 100 meters high. The uniqueness of Centurion is that it is the highest deciduous tree of our planet. The eucalyptus was found in the fall of 2008 by the laser of an aircraft searching for dominant heights in the area.
Tree height limit
In 2001, the English scientist D. Amos published an article in one of the authoritative scientific publications on the maximum growth of trees. The researcher conducted a series of experiments which, according to him, convincingly prove that the maximum height of a tree is 130 meters. After this mark, the plant will not be able to deliver the nutritional composition obtained from the soil to the crown, and its growth will stop.
Amos' theory has not yet found practical confirmation: there is not a single tree in the world 130 meters high.
Trees are completely unique life forms in which the difference between the size of a seed and adult can be millions of times. This statement is true even for banal birch or oak, not to mention more major representatives flora. Imagine the difference when judging the largest tree in the world.
The question is which plant deserves this title. Tallest or most voluminous? With a thick trunk or crown? Or maybe the largest colony? Just in case, we'll tell you about each one.
This giant grows in America, in the territory national park"Sequoia". It itself, of course, also belongs to this genus, more precisely to the species of giant sequoiadendron. By the way, this definition fits the tree perfectly:
- Height: 83.8 m.
- Trunk circumference at ground level: 31.3 m.
- Trunk diameter at the base: 11.1 m.
- Average crown span: 32.5 m.
- Barrel volume: 1487 m³
- Total weight: 1910 tons.
It’s impossible to call this tree anything else other than a “giant” one. It is considered the most voluminous in the world. And every year it grows, increasing the diameter of the trunk by one and a half centimeters. This may not seem like much, but this growth has been going on for several millennia and has no plans to stop. Its age is about 2000 years, which is not a record, but also impressive.
Several years ago, the largest branch fell off from this sequoia tree. But experts say that this did not affect the giant’s well-being.
Hyperion
And this is just the tallest tree. It also belongs to the genus of sequoias and grows in America, but belongs to a different species - evergreen sequoias. As a result, it has a thinner, but very tall trunk. Its thickness at the chest level of an adult is 4.84 meters, but the top of its head rises to a height of 115.6 meters, which makes it an absolute champion. Bye.
The fact is that by 2017 it may be overtaken by its shorter relative - Helios. The top of Hyperion has been significantly damaged by woodpeckers, as a result, its growth rate is one inch per year, while that of Helios is twice as high.
Star anise – unique plant. While every self-respecting tree has one trunk, it can have hundreds of them. At the beginning of its life, star anise grows as expected, but then aerial roots descend from horizontal branches. They reach the soil, take root in it and turn into a kind of support. As a result, star anise looks as if it has one crown and hundreds of trunks. For this he was nicknamed “grove tree.”
You can walk under this tree for a long time
And the largest tree grows in the botanical garden of the Indian city of Huara. Its age is more than 250 years. And although it does not exceed 25 meters in height, the width is amazing. Imagine: a single plant covers an area of one and a half hectares, with more than 3,200 aerial roots reaching the ground. It is surrounded by a path 330 meters long, but the tree is not going to take into account the opinions of people and continues to grow beyond its boundaries.
Many people believe that the thickest tree is one of the baobabs. But in fact, this title belongs to the usually slender cypress trees. One such tree grows in the Mexican town of Santa Maria del Tule.
The circumference of this delicate flora is about 40 meters, and to cover it you will need a round dance of 30 adult men. Interestingly, its height is not much greater - about 40 meters. It gets more difficult with age. According to various estimates, it is given from 1400 to 6000 meters.
Previously, it was believed that this tree consists of several fused trunks, but a simple gene analysis confirmed that it is a single plant, albeit a very large one.
Lesok in American state Yuta, named Pando, is unlikely to impress anyone at first glance. Trees and trees... And all somehow the same...
There are many trees, but one organism
But this is not just a forest, but a single clonal colony that grew from a single aspen poplar. Each tree in this grove is a clone, a shoot of its ancestor or its descendants.
All 47 thousand trees have a single root system and the same genetic code, making the forest one of the world's largest organisms, which is not surprising considering its combined weight of 6,000 tons.
But estimating his age is even more difficult. Some researchers claim that it is about 80,000 years old. Others are more optimistic and give him a whole million. If so, then Pandu forest is the oldest Living being planets.
The largest trees, old, tall, thick... Theoretically, almost any oak tree can grow to such a title. Especially if people don't bother him.