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Hyperion is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in California that is the world's tallest known living tree, measured at 116.07 metres (380.8 ft) tall in 2019. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Hyperion was discovered on August 25, 2006, by naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor . [ 5 ]
Michael W. Taylor (born 25 April 1966) is an American forester who is notable for being a leading discoverer of champion and tallest trees - most notably coast redwoods. In 2006, Taylor co-discovered the tallest known tree in the world, a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) now named "Hyperion". He also discovered "Helios" and "Icarus", the ...
List of tallest trees by species Species Height Tree name Class Location Continent References Meters Feet Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) 116.07 380.8 Hyperion: Conifer: Redwood National Park, California, United States: Western North America [1] [2] It reached 116.07 metres (380.8 ft) in 2019. [3]
In a remote area of California’s Redwood National Park, a coastal redwood dubbed “Hyperion” towers at 380 feet and is considered to be the world’s tallest living tree, a distinction that ...
Stratosphere Giant was the tallest known living redwood until the discovery of three taller trees in Redwood National Park; the tallest, Hyperion, measuring 115.55 metres (379.1 ft) in September 2006. [8] Before the discovery of Hyperion, the tallest redwood ever measured was the Dyerville Giant, also in Humboldt Redwoods State Park.
Roughly 95% of all Redwoods were cut down for industrial logging in the 1800s and 1900s, but the few that remain still rank as some of the tallest organisms on Earth. Hyperion Hiking to the world ...
California's Redwood National Park officials have made the 380-foot redwood off-limits. Visitors caught near it could face six months in jail and a $5,000 fine. California trying to make the world ...
The tree has continued to grow and measured 113.11 m (371.1 ft) in 2010 and 113.61 m (372.7 ft) in 2013. [4] It is a specimen of the species Sequoia sempervirens , the Coast Redwood. The tree features three prominent burls on the southwestern side of its trunk and is surrounded by a large number of trees of almost equal size.