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For those of us who love the forest, trees are a constant source of wonder. Towering forest giants can make you feel tiny wherever you are, but some outshine the rest.
Some of the tallest trees on earth can be found in the inaccessible tropics of Borneo and the ancient forests of Tasmania. The tallest trees in Europe are over 20 stories high, but they are all non-native species from wild parts of the world.
There is no doubt that today’s largest trees would not have made competition in past centuries, and about 95% of the ancient and tall redwood forests in western North America have been cut down.
The tales tell of giant trees that would tower over modern monarchs. No doubt exaggeration played a part in some of the recorded measurements, but not all of them can be discounted.
We bring to your attention a list of the 10 tallest trees in the world: the rating of the planet’s record holders, basically, these are the largest sequoias.
10 Centurion, 99,82 m
Tasmania, Australia
It’s a happy coincidence that Centurion survived. Wildfires in 1934 spared only a few older trees in the area and moved to the west side. In 1950, lumberjacks were working nearby, and then this giant tree was not spared. Then, in 1966 and 1967, the nearby forest was deliberately burned for subsequent regeneration. In 1967, this turned into violent, destructive fires. This time the fire went around the tree on the east side.
In January 2019, the tree suffered from burns, but survived. It is possible that this tree is more than 100 meters high: laser measurements in December 2018 gave a figure of 100,5 meters! Climbers reported that the crown is healthy and growing from a broken top, so some time ago the Centurion was about 103 meters tall.
9. Mendocino, 112,20 m
State of California, USA
Tree Mendocino held the title of the tallest tree in the world from 1996 to 2000, but this claim was debunked when several taller trees were discovered in Humboldt County.
The Mendocino tree still grows in the old redwood groves in Montgomery Woods, but its exact location is a secret!
8. Paradox, 112,56 m
California, United States
UC Berkeley forestry professor Paul J. Zinke and graduate student Alan J. Stangenberger discovered Paradox from Duckett Bluff, near Dyerville, in 1966, but did not give the tree a name.
In February 1993, Zinke told naturalist Michael Taylor where to look for his “Three Peas in a Pod” (then called “Laureline”, “Paradox” and “Telperion”), which, as Zinke suspected, turned out to be among the tallest trees in the world. .
When Taylor discovered that very tree, he named it Paradox because he felt that it had such an unusually thin trunk for a tree of this height.
Paradox is also the 24th fastest growing redwood tree so far measured; over the past decade, it has grown by an average of 21,1 cubic feet and 713 pounds (323 kg) every year.
7. Lauralin, 112,62 m
California, United States
Laureline, also known as Loralyn и Federation Giant, holds many titles: 7th tallest tree in the world, 6th largest in the local Humboldt Redwoods Park, and also the leader among trees in Federation Grove.
UC Berkeley forestry professor Paul Zinke and graduate student Alan Stangenberger discovered Laureline from Duckett Bluff, near Deerville, in 1966, along with Paradox.
6. Orion, 112,63 m
California, United States
orion, also known as TT9, rightfully takes first place in the Orion grove. Humboldt State University forestry professor Stephen Sillett and naturalists Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor named the tree after Orion, a hunter from Greek mythology who was placed among the stars by the Greek Olympian Zeus.
In the spring of 2007, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the California State Parks Foundation, the Wildlife Conservancy, and the Redwood Rescue League paid Sanborn Mapping Services $183 to conduct aerial LiDAR surveys in Redwood National and State Parks, headwaters. For three months, a 000 Sanborn Aero Commander 500S aircraft equipped with topographic LiDAR sensors from Leica Geosystems flew back and forth over parks at an altitude of 1968 meters, and a laser, firing through a hole in the bottom of the fuselage, scanned the terrain below.
Although many of the tall red trees detected by LiDAR, including Hyperion and Helios, were already known from earlier ground surveys, some trees, including Gulch Tower, Orion, Outer, and Solstice, were not previously discovered.
When Sillett climbed Orion in 2009, he determined that it was the sixth tallest tree in the world.
5. National Geographic Society, 112,71 m
California, United States
A tree with a very unusual name is also a sequoia. Its discovery dates back to 1994. The tree grows next to Redwood Creek, and this is the only thing that is known, because the exact location remains a secret. tree diameter NGO 4,5 meter.
4. Stratospheric giant, 113,11 m
California, United States
Gishant Stratosphere was named the 24th largest on the Redwood Coast. The 2013 measurements were 113,11 meters high and 17 inches in diameter. The Stratospheric Giant, in 2000, was the tallest tree discovered by Chris Atkins near Bull Creek and the Alley of the Giants.
To see how tall this red giant is compared to humans, search the internet for a composite photo of James Balogh.
3. Icarus, 113,14 m
California, United States
Icarus is a very tall and surprisingly slender tree, and one of the most beautiful trees in Redwood National Park, but it’s in the tree’s interest that there aren’t any photos on the Internet to protect it.
Icarus is nearly impossible to find if you first find Helios and then use the forest laser to measure the tall dead trees nearby, but this is time consuming and expensive.
2. Helios, 114,58 m
California, United States
Coast Helios in Redwood was discovered on July 1, 2006. Around 6 p.m., Atkins and Taylor decided to measure a couple of trees and head back when they noticed one top was flooded with sun when all the other trees were in darkness. When they aimed their lasers at it, it was over 114 meters high.
Helios is a compressed group of four trunks, hence the nickname “Mighty quad“. The combination of four barrels is different and easy to see. Approaching from one side of the slope, you will see a tree in the shade, but on the other side it will appear in all its glory.
1. Hyperion, 115,61 m
California, United States
In Greek mythology Hypertension – one of the twelve Titans, children of Earth and Sky. Hyperion is translated as “Tall”. Therefore, it is quite obvious why such a name is given to the tallest tree in the world.
As part of a species known to live for over a thousand years, Hyperion is relatively young. The guy who climbed the tree, Steve Sillett, an environmentalist from the State University. Humboldt, stated that Hyperion is about 600 years old.
The tree was discovered in 2006 by two naturalists; Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor did some training and were surprised to find that Hyperion was taller than the tallest tree at the time by almost 10 feet!
When the scientific community learned of Chris and Michael’s discovery, a group of environmentalists gathered to confirm the fact. Instead of doing complex math, they simply sent a person upstairs and measured the tree with a measuring tape. Chris and Michael’s calculations were correct.