What are the tallest species of trees in the world?
The tallest trees in the world are coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens). They are evergreen trees, growing up to 300 feet (91 meters)! Coast redwoods, often called California redwoods, can be found in coastal California and coastal Oregon. These trees need humidity, so most of them grow the mountains where moisture level is always sufficient. The tree named Hyperion, 379.7 feet tall, is the tallest of the coastal redwoods and all living trees ever discovered. It was found in 2006.
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Michael Dennis Mulleady
just north of s.f. you can go up a majestic coast hwy. slow but beautiful faster route fo the redwoods is hwy. 101. when you hit Eureka must see is Carson Mansion (read history of this house). for dinner drive across the bridge fo Samoa Cookhouse. great breakfast too. when you leave the cookhouse continue driving north to Arcata. park in downtown and walk around the town see the old victorian homes. friendly people. two must sees are hsu (humboldt state univ.) and the city park. take a walk through the walking trail in the park. you will never want to leave. i've seen a great many countries with great beauty but none (not even the mountains of costra rica compare to that of Humboldt County.
Ed Taber
Nicole Toma-Tolman, Can you think of anything more obscene than cutting down a 3,000 year old tree to make a deck and sauna for a yuppie?
kbe
Who did that?👺
MotherNature
tinaloflin, they are awesome. In the real sense of the word. Absolutely awe inspiring.
MotherNature
njmuscat, Redwoods do grow in Washington. Also on the Peninsula in in the Olympic rainforest stands the largest Red cedar, White cedar and Douglas fir trees
Billie Sue Patrick
Irene Townsend, My husband and I just watched a fascinating series on PBS about Australia. It showed the tallest tree in Australia, and the host said that the redwoods in California are taller.
Sandra
My mother told me one time when she was a kid her father and her mom they went and California and they were able to drive through one of the the redwood trees they were so big
Maurice O'Neill
Irene Townsend, there are some very tall individual trees in the world, but the tallest on record and the tallest species is what is known as the coastal redwood. A simple Google search revealed nothing to refute the claim
Gerald B. Curtis
Michael Dennis Mulleady, Excellent commentary, but a paucity of punctuation and capitalization made for tough slogging. Whew!
tinaloflin
I want to see those trees myself. They look awesome.
meikoman
Will not go to next question
John Grubb
The giant redwood tree where you can drive a car through, is simple amazing!!
Linda Bujold
I said sequoias but did not know they were redwoods.
bonniemarie
Jim Kepler, Cutting down "old growth" forests meant cutting down and clearing out what was already DEAD.
Peter Bergman
Jim Kepler, The same spotted owls that were nesting in K-Mart signs??
Irene Townsend
Had only heard of the Redwood. I know both New Zealand and Australia have two very tall trees, which are not mentioned in this question and we can only answer the question as written. Baron Byron Greenback can only ask questions he knows about and may have neve heard that there are taller trees In the world just like I've never heard of Baobab nor Iroko. Nobody knows everything even when we think we do. Good info though Thanks
Diding Otico
Wow amazing trees!!!👍