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The Senator in 2012 The Senator in 2011. The Senator was the biggest and oldest bald cypress [1] tree in the world, located in Big Tree Park, Longwood, Florida.At the time of its demise in 2012, it was approximately 3,500 years old, 125 feet (38 m) tall, and with a trunk diameter of 11.27 feet (3.44 m). [2]
Lady Liberty is a bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) located in Big Tree Park in Longwood, Florida.The tree is over 2,000 years old and stands 40 feet (12 m) from the former site of The Senator, a 3,500-year-old Bald Cypress that burned down on January 16, 2012. [1]
The "Senator" bald cypress tree. The bald cypress grows in full sunlight to partial shade. This species grows best in wet or well-drained soil but can tolerate dry soil. It is moderately able to grow in aerosols of salt water. It does well in acid, neutral and alkaline soils across the full range of light (sandy), medium (loamy), and heavy ...
Pando, a colony of quaking aspen, is one of the oldest-known clonal trees. Recent estimates of its age range up to 14,000 years old, and 18,000 years by the latest (2024) estimate. [1] It is located in Utah, United States. This is a list of the oldest-known trees, as reported in reliable sources. Definitions of what constitutes an individual ...
The Big Tree, 400 year old national champion in Missouri, U.S. The Big Tree, Rockport, a live oak near Rockport, Texas, U.S. Big Tree, the tallest tree known to the public in northern California's Redwoods; The Senator (tree), the oldest pond cypress tree in the United States; The Big Tree, Kirkwall, a sycamore tree in Orkney, Scotland
A gigantic cypress tree found in a canyon in Tibet stands as the tallest tree ever discovered in Asia and the second tallest in the world. The tree, measuring over 335ft in height and nearly 9.2ft ...
Taxodium / t æ k ˈ s oʊ d i ə m / [1] is a genus of one to three species (depending on taxonomic opinion) of extremely flood-tolerant conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae.The name is derived from the Latin word taxus, meaning "yew", and the Greek word εἶδος (eidos), meaning "similar to."
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