Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
List of superlative trees. The coniferous Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is the tallest tree species on earth. The world's superlative trees can be ranked by any factor. Records have been kept for trees with superlative height, trunk diameter (girth), canopy coverage, airspace volume, wood volume, estimated mass, and age.
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] The tree height of 115.55 m (379.1 ft) was verified by Stephen Sillett in 2006 ...
Menara is the name of a yellow meranti (Shorea faguetiana) tree found in the Danum Valley Conservation Area, in Sabah, Malaysia.It was measured at 97.58 m (320.1 ft), which ranks it as the world's tallest known living tropical tree [1] [2] [3] and was the tallest known tree on the Asian continent until a taller Himalayan cypress was found in the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon in 2023. [4]
North America. [1][2] It reached 116.07 metres (380.8 ft) in 2019. [3] The second and third tallest trees, both redwoods, were also found at Redwood National Park in 2006 when Hyperion was found, and were named Helios 114.7 metres (376 ft) and Icarus 113.1 metres (371 ft) tall (in 2006). [3]
Champion Tree is a designation afforded to selected trees that are special or superlative because of their height, size or significance. A number of countries including the UK, New Zealand, [1] the U.S., South Africa [2] and Canada support such designation schemes based on standardised criteria. A database of over 69,000 such designated trees ...
Richetia faguetiana is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. Along with other species in the genus Richetia, it is also known as the yellow meranti. It is native to Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, and Thailand. [1] It is the tallest flowering plant, and third tallest living tree species, after the sequoia and Himalayan cypress, with ...
Centurion is the name given to a single Eucalyptus regnans tree growing in Southern Tasmania, Australia, and the world's tallest known Eucalyptus.The tree was first measured by climber-deployed tapeline at 99.6 metres (327 ft) tall in 2008, and was subsequently re-measured to be 100.5 metres (330 ft) tall by ground laser in 2018.
This tree was the second-largest tree in the world (only the General Sherman tree was larger) until September 2003, when the tree lost a portion of its crown as a result of a fire caused by a lightning strike. [1] [14] This reduced its height from nearly 78 meters (255 ft) to about 70 meters (229 ft). The structurally weakened tree partially ...