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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
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- remarkable tree
- Named after
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Tulare County
- Diameter
- 4.3
- Official website
- www.nps.gov/seki/learn/nature/sherman.htm
- Image
- United States - California - Sequoia National Park - General Sherman Tree - Panorama.jpg
- Height
- 83.8
- Perimeter
- 31.1
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- located in/on physical feature
- Giant Forest
- individual of taxon
- Q149851
- Commons gallery
- General Sherman Tree
- volume as quantity
- 1487
- Commons category
- General Sherman Tree
- located in protected area
- Sequoia National Park
- native label
- General Sherman
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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.