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Common names include coast redwood, coastal redwood and California redwood. It is an evergreen , long-lived, monoecious tree living 1,200–2,200 years or more. [ 4 ] This species includes the tallest living trees on Earth, reaching up to 115.9 m (380.1 ft) in height (without the roots ) and up to 8.9 m (29 ft) in diameter at breast height .
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 Mendocino Tree is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) located in Montgomery Woods State Natural Reserve in Mendocino County, California.. From 1999 to 2004, it was believed to be the tallest tree in the world, measuring 367.5 feet (112.0 m) tall.
Coastal Northern and Central California and extreme southern Oregon. The "Mill Creek Giant" near the Mill Creek bridge in Redwood National Park, Crescent City, California has bark 46 cm (18 in) thick. [133] Coast Redwood bark is often deeply fissured, making it easy to measure most of the depth of the bark even on live trees.
Sequoioideae, commonly referred to as redwoods, is a subfamily of coniferous trees within the family Cupressaceae, that range in the northern hemisphere. It includes the largest and tallest trees in the world.
The redwood has been California's official state tree since 1937. [4] The world's tallest trees are coast redwoods, with the record holder, Hyperion, reaching 380 ft (120 m). [3] [5] El Palo Alto is not so tall, at about 110 ft (34 m) [6] as of 2021, down from 162 ft (49 m) in the 19th century. [7]
1941 2019. The Chandelier Tree in Drive-Thru Tree Park [1] is a 276-foot (84 m) tall coast redwood tree in Leggett, California with a 6-foot-wide (1.8 m) by 6-foot-9-inch-high (2.06 m) hole [2] cut through its base to allow a car to drive through.
The measurement of that tree was undertaken by Professor Stephen Sillett, renowned tall tree and canopy researcher at Humboldt State University, who confirmed its status as the tallest living Redwood at a height of 115.55 metres. [14]