The Great Redwoods

The Redwoods (Sequoia and Sequoiadendron) are massive trees. The three Redwood subfamily genera are: The Metasequoia, with the living species Metasequoia glyptostroboides found in China (which are smaller trees); Sequoia and Sequoiadendron of California and Oregon, USA. The redwood species contains the largest and tallest trees in the world. These trees can live to an old age, with some for hundreds to thousands of years. They are the sky scrapers of the plant world. The tallest tree in the world is a Sequoia sempervirens (the Hyperion Tree) which is a coast Redwood in Northern California that was measured at 115.61 metres (379.3 ft). This ranks it as the world's tallest known living tree. Despite its great height, Hyperion is not the largest known coast Redwood; that distinction belongs to the Lost Monarch tree. The largest tree in the world is a Sequoiadendron giganteum (the General Sherman Tree) located 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.