What is the biggest tree in the world?The answer to this question, it would seem, even a schoolboy knows - of course, this sequoia!These giant trees, which grow in North America near the Pacific coast, reaching a height of more than a hundred meters!Who, if not him, to give the palm?But not all so simple.The fact that the question arises, how to count.Only the height to take into account, or even the thickness and the number of cubic meters of wood, enclosed in a large tree?And take into account only the trees living today, but ignore those whose dimensions have been recorded in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, and then they cut down or they were broken by Hurricane?But first things first.
The largest tree in the world at the height of today - this is the sequoia, which received its own name, "Hyperion", it is "growth" in the one hundred and fifteen and a half meters.Interestingly, the observed and measured tree was only in 2006.In second place is also a sequoia "Helios" with a height of one hundred and fourteen meters and sixty-nine centimeters.Behind the leader - just over half a meter!In third place - "Icarus" height of a little more than one hundred thirteen meters, and the fourth - Sequoia "Stratosphere Giant" (one hundred and twelve meters).
may seem that the biggest tree in the world - is necessarily a sequoia.No.The highest in the relatively recent past have been very different tree species in the southern hemisphere - in Australia.In 1872, a local forester fixed height of the giant eucalyptus growing on the site subordinated to it.The height of the tree was much more than the "Hyperion": one hundred and fifty meters!And thirteen years later was measured another Australian eucalyptus.He was slightly lower but still significantly above the current redwoods - one hundred forty-three meters!Unfortunately, these giants did not survive to the present day.Rather, it was a very old trees, and they died a natural death.
dealt with in what is the largest tree in the world by height, look, what about the coverage.Here, of course, keep the palm African baobabs.With a relatively small increase (up to twenty-five meters) they have coverage of forty meters!Like flattened barrels.Baobab is definitely the thickest tree in the world.African explorer David Livingstone claimed to have witnessed, in the hollow of a baobab slept thirty people at once!Baobab is also one of the most long-lived trees.Radiocarbon analysis found that the largest baobabs are very advanced age - up to five thousand years!They were already a few hundred years, when the construction of the first Egyptian pyramids.
biggest trees in the world - not necessarily the highest or the thickest.Banyan growing in one of India's national parks, compared to other champions is very modest age - about two hundred and fifty years, and the relatively low height - twenty-five meters.But he is famous for being the tree that has the world's largest crown.It covers an area of half a hectare!Banyan produces a horizontal branches of the so-called "aerial roots".Most of them are killed, but the ones that reach the ground, let the real thing, "excavation" and the roots begin to quickly "get fat".After some time, they are almost indistinguishable from the barrel.From a distance it seems the only one banyan grove, but in fact it is - only one tree with a lot of natural "props."
