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The Queets Spruce is the largest in the world with a trunk volume of 346 m 3 (12,200 cu ft), a height of 74.6 m (244 ft 9 in), and a 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in) dbh. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] It is located near the Queets River in Olympic National Park , about 26 km (16 mi) from the Pacific Ocean.
It does have the largest trees in the world outside of the state of California and New Zealand. [1] Located on the western side of the Olympic Mountains, the Quinault Valley was carved out by a glacier and ends at Lake Quinault. Quinault Rain Forest is a tourist area with a number of resorts and lodges located on either side of Lake Quinault.
The world's tallest planted tree. Southern Africa (non native), but endemic to eastern Australia) [41] [42] Grand fir (Abies grandis) 81.4 267 Conifer Glacier Peak Wilderness, Washington, United States. Western North America [43] [24] Shorea gibbosa: 81.11 266.1 Flowering plant River Flats of Tawau Hills National Park, Sabah on Borneo Southeast ...
Each of the trees in this stand is a genetically identical male that has reproduced vegetatively. Although no single tree in this stand is of that age, the stand itself as a single organism has existed that long. [119] Individual trees in the clonal patch have been listed as having ages of 2000 [120] [121] or even to 3000 years old. [122] [123]
The giant sequoia is considered the largest known living tree on the planet and also one of the tallest, widest and longest-lived (estimated at 2,000+ years old). It is more than 100 feet around ...
The tree is located on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington. [1] It is currently the largest known Western redcedar in the world, [2] (compare to the Cheewhat Giant on Canada's Vancouver Island. [3] After the death in 2016 of the Quinault Big Cedar, the Duncan Cedar became the largest known Western redcedar in the United States ...
“The size of these magnificent creatures was incredible," Fry said in a news release earlier this month. "One female anaconda we encountered measured an astounding 6.3 meters (20.8 feet) long."