2006-10-06 00:57:30 · 6 answers · asked by chris l 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
The General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park is the largest (by volume) tree in the world.
2006-10-06 00:59:45 · answer #1 · answered by dolleater 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funny you should ask...this just came out last month.
Guess the height of the world's tallest tree
16 September 2006
IT HAS been a busy week for tree huggers - discovering not only the world's tallest tree but also what governs a tree's ultimate height.
Until 7 September the record was held by 112.8-metre-tall giant redwood in north California, then a team at Humboldt State University found a 115.2-metre specimen in California's Redwood National Park. There is, however, a natural limit on maximum tree height, says a team led by Quanshui Zheng of Tsinghua University in China in a paper submitted to Nature's pre-print server.
As water evaporates from leaves, moisture is pulled into the tree via the roots, meaning trees have to work ever harder to overcome gravity and raise water to leaves at great heights.
2006-10-08 18:33:07 · answer #2 · answered by KIT J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world's largest tree, a giant sequoia growing in California's Sequoia National Park, just keeps getting younger. The massive conifer, named General Sherman in 1879 by admirers of the Civil War general, may be little more than 2,000 years old, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study. New age estimates for this and several other famous giant sequoias -- including the General Grant tree, known as the "Nation's Christmas Tree" -- are found in an article by research ecologist Dr. Nate Stephenson of the USGS Western Ecological Research Center in the botanical journal Madroño.
2006-10-06 01:00:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
General Sherman is a magnificent tree, and the largest in volume. However, there IS a California coastal redwood that is taller at 368 ft.
2006-10-06 04:48:08 · answer #4 · answered by Cornpatch 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is an old tree in the region of Harzevil near Manjil city _a city famous for it's ever blowing winds and wind-power farmings_ with the 3000 years old.It is SARV.
I wish I could enclose the picture...
Reza Mastouri- Iran
2006-10-06 01:20:55 · answer #5 · answered by Reza Mastouri 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Major Oak in Nottinghamshire's Sherwood Forest is justly famous, both for its size and mythological associations with Robin Hood.
But there are larger trees than this
2006-10-06 01:08:13 · answer #6 · answered by lizzy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋