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General Sherman
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giant sequoia in Giant Forest, California; largest single-stem tree in the world by volume
Key facts
- Species
- Giant sequoia ( Sequoiadendron giganteum )
- Height
- 83.8 m (275 ft)
- Diameter
- 7.7 m (25 ft)
- Volume of trunk
- 1,487 m (52,500 ft )
- Date seeded
- 700 BC – 300 BC
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The General Sherman Tree is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, California. By volume, it is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “General Sherman” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.