The tallest tree is called the National Geographic Tree. How tall is it and where is it found? +++++++++++++++++ 07-29-03, 12:02 PM Jenny Roberts The tallest tree is named "National Geographic Tree" in Redwood National Park, California. It is 364.3 feet tall, or as tall as a 30-story building!
07-29-03, 12:10 PM Georgia85 Actually it is not the tallest tree anymore! Big Grin The National Geographic Tree, a redwood, was the tallest tree in 1991. It was 365 feet and 6 inches and found in Redwood National Park in California. But in 1996 another tree was discovered in Montgomery Woods State Reserve near Ukiah and in March 1999 it was confirmed that it measured 367 feet 6 inches.
07-29-03, 01:25 PM DorianGreyed I wonder how much, if any, the National Geographic tree grew in those 5 years.
07-29-03, 04:23 PM MkStfnz Very good find, Georgia85! I originally thought the answer was the National Geographic tree, but you've proved me wrong.
07-29-03, 07:45 PM DorianGreyed The world's tallest living tree, the Stratosphere Giant, measures 112.6 m (369 ft 4.8 in) as of 2002. A coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), it was discovered by Chris Atkins (USA) in August 2000 in the Rockefeller Forest of the Humboldt Redwoods State Park, California, USA.
See Guinness World Records , Natural World, then Plant World. Click on the Garden with the tallest Trees. Then, look on the right for the link to the tallest tree.
07-29-03, 08:35 PM Georgia85 Well leave it to DG to prove us BOTH wrong! Big Grin
07-29-03, 09:03 PM DorianGreyed As I have said before, Georgia, this is why I get the Big Buck$.
07-30-03, 07:52 AM MkStfnz Good find, DG.
Hey, maybe I can find an even taller tree and prove you *both* wrong... Off to my backyard! Big Grin Razz
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A redwood tree discovered in a remote California forest has turned out to be the world’s tallest tree, edging out one nearby that had been the titleholder. Prof. Steve Sillett of Humboldt State University said the record-setting tree, named Hyperion, was 379.1 feet tall , bettering the previous record holder, the 370.5-foot-tall Stratosphere Giant. Researchers exploring remote and rugged terrain this summer in the Redwood National and State Parks along California’s northernmost coast also discovered two other redwoods taller than the Stratosphere Giant, suggesting there had been many more massive ancient redwoods in the area, Professor Sillett said. - New York Times
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