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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 .
While it is the largest tree known, the General Sherman tree is neither the tallest known living tree on Earth (that distinction belongs to Hyperion, a coast redwood), [8] nor is it the widest (both the largest cypress and largest baobab have a greater diameter), nor is it the oldest known living tree on Earth (that distinction belongs to Prometheus, a Great Basin bristlecone pine). [9]
The East Bay Redwoods are an isolated population of coast redwoods that exist a considerable distance inland from the coast in the Berkeley Hills in western Contra Costa County, California. Stands of Sequoia sempervirens , the Coast Redwood, occur on the west coast from Big Sur to extreme southwestern Oregon . [ 1 ]
The three redwood subfamily genera are Sequoia from coastal California and Oregon, Sequoiadendron from California's Sierra Nevada, and Metasequoia in China. The redwood family contains the largest and tallest trees in the world. These trees can live for thousands of years.
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. [1] [3] Hyperion was discovered on August 25, 2006, by naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor. [4]
Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve is a state park of California in the United States established to preserve 805 acres (326 ha) of coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens). The reserve is located in Sonoma County, just north of Guerneville. The reserve is in a temperate rainforest. The climate is mild and wet.
The Redwood National and State Parks (RNSP) are a complex of one United States national park and three California state parks located along the coast of northern California. The combined RNSP contain Redwood National Park, Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park , Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park , and Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park .
El Palo Alto is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), a giant and long-lived tree species only found near the North American Pacific coast. [3] 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).