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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.
Early pioneers in the Ohio Valley were already known as buckeyes when Dr. Daniel Drake, a physician and historian in Cincinnati, presented a speech on Dec. 26, 1833, extolling the virtues of the ...
Picea glauca (Moench) Voss., the White Spruce, [4] is a species of spruce native to the northern temperate and boreal forests in Canada and United States, North America.. Picea glauca is native from central Alaska all through the east, across western and southern/central Canada to the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario and south to Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin ...
Aesculus glabra, commonly known as Ohio buckeye, [2] Texas buckeye, [3] fetid buckeye, [3] and horse chestnut [3] is a species of tree in the soapberry family (Sapindaceae) native to North America. Its natural range is primarily in the Midwestern and lower Great Plains regions of the United States, extending southeast into the geological Black ...
The height of 465 feet would make the Nooksack Giant easily the tallest tree ever reliably recorded on the planet. Anecdotal reports do exist of other Douglas fir and mountain ash trees reaching 400 to 500 feet (122 to 152 m), such as the 435 ft (133 m) "Ferguson Tree," a Eucalyptus regnans of the Watt's river, Australia in 1872, or the 415 ft ...
State's old-growth tree population decimated. On April 5, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources issued a press release celebrating its 75th anniversary with an announcement that the Division of ...
A tree like the General Sherman can use maybe 800 to 1,000 gallons of water in a single day,” Ambrose said. “Giant sequoias are typically thought of as being very resistant to pests and ...
Aesculus flava, also known commonly as the common buckeye, the sweet buckeye, and the yellow buckeye, is a species of deciduous tree in the subfamily Hippocastanoideae of the family Sapindaceae. The species is native to the Ohio Valley and Appalachian Mountains of the Eastern United States . [ 2 ]