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Coordinates: 38°40′6″S 143°34′48″E. Redwoods of the Otway Ranges is a small sheltered grove of Coast Redwoods, Sequoia sempervirens, about 5 kilometres (3 mi) south of Beech Forest in the Otway Ranges in southwestern Victoria, Australia. The trees, known by some as Californian Redwoods, were one of many conifer species planted ...
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 .
Sequoioideae. † Austrosequoia? 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 trees in the subfamily are amongst the most notable trees in the world and are common ornamental trees.
Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood, is a fast-growing, endangered deciduous conifer. It is the sole living species of the genus Metasequoia, one of three genera in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae. It now survives in the wild only in wet lower slopes and montane river and stream valleys in the border region of ...
Discovered in Redwood National Park in 2006 in an unpublished location, [d] the tallest living tree is the coast redwood tree (Sequoia sempervirens) named Hyperion, [85] at 380 feet (120 m). It is followed by Helios at 377 feet (115 m), and Icarus at 371 feet (113 m), both also in Redwood National Park. [ 86 ]
Hyperion is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in California that is the world's tallest known living tree, measuring 115.92 m (380.3 ft). [ 4 ] Hyperion was discovered on August 25, 2006, by naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor. [ 5 ] The tree was verified as standing 115.55 m (379.1 ft) tall by Stephen Sillett.
Redwood Mountain Grove. Redwood Mountain Grove is the largest grove of giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) trees on earth. [1] It is located in Kings Canyon National Park and Giant Sequoia National Monument on the western slope of California 's Sierra Nevada. The grove contains the world's tallest giant sequoia (95 metres (312 ft)). [2]
Sequoia is a genus of redwood coniferous trees in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae. The only extant species of the genus is Sequoia sempervirens in the Northern California coastal forests ecoregion of Northern California and Southwestern Oregon in the United States. [1][2] The two other genera in the subfamily Sequoioideae ...