What Trees Are The Tallest Trees In The World?
A member of the species of trees known as Redwoods, the Sequoia, reaching heights of three hundred and seventy-eight feet, is the tallest tree in the world. The Sequoia measures twenty-three feet, in diameter, at the base and is a reddish-brown in colour. Sometimes referred to as the Pacific Coast Redwood, the Coast Redwood or the California Redwood, the Sequoia tree is found, generally in the mountain terrain, along the Pacific coast of the United States of America. The tallest Sequoia ever, or so it was claimed at the time, stood three hundred and eighty feet and was cut down in 1912. Coming in at second place, the Douglas-fir is the tallest non-redwood tree ever recorded with a height of three hundred and twenty-nine feet. These majestic trees live for hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years and the oldest known Sequoia, to date, is, approximately, two thousand two hundred years old.
