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The General Sherman, a California giant sequoia, is the largest tree by volume. 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.
Date seeded. 700 - 300 BC. General Sherman is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree located at an elevation of 2,109 m (6,919 ft) above sea level in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, in the U.S. state of California. By volume, it is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth. [1]
In forestry, the largest trees are measured by the greatest volume of a single stem, regardless of species, in that case, the General Sherman Tree, is the largest unitary (single stem) tree. While many emphasize that Pando is the largest clonal organism, other large trees, including Redwoods can also reproduce via cloning. Pando being the ...
The Washington Tree (not listed above) was previously arguably the second largest tree with a volume of 1,354.96 m 3 (47,850 cu ft) (although the upper half of its trunk was hollow, making the calculated volume debatable), but after losing the hollow upper half of its trunk in January 2005 following a fire, it is no longer of exceptional size.
It's not the tallest or oldest tree in the world today, but it's the largest when measured by volume, at 52,000 cubic feet. ... The trees have been pretty good stewards of the planet, providing ...
The largest trees in the world by volume are all Giant Sequoias in Kings Canyon National Park. They have been previously reported by trunk volume as: General Sherman at 52,508 cubic feet (1,486.9 m 3); General Grant at 46,608 cubic feet (1,319.8 m 3); and President at 45,148 cubic feet (1,278.4 m 3).
The Washington Tree was previously arguably the second largest tree with a volume of 47,850 cubic feet (1,355 m 3) (although the upper half of its trunk was hollow, making the calculated volume debatable), but after losing the hollow upper half of its trunk in January 2005 following a fire, it is no longer of great size.
The largest single-stem tree by wood volume and mass is the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), native to Sierra Nevada and California; it typically grows to a height of 70–85 m (230–280 ft) and 5–7 m (16–23 ft) in diameter.