Giant Sequoias-Largest Living Things on Earth

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My lovely wife, Pam, and I spent this last weekend at Calaveras Big Trees State Park in Northern California where there are a few groves of the largest trees on Earth, the Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum). For those of you who have never seen these rather magnificent specimens of the plant kingdom, they can have trunk diameters of over 20', have very thick bark of up to 2-3' in thickness, and some of the trees are estimated to be over 2,000 -3,000 years old. Below is my tree-hugging view, for a better perspective of the enormity of these amazing trees, of one of the larger specimens at Calaveras Big Trees State Park.

 

Great picture, Kevin.

For those interested in big living things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organisms

I was careful with the spelling on that search!

 

is that the same type of tree that they have drilled through so you can drive your car through?

or is that something Red........


nick

 

Nick:

Yes, these are the same giant redwood trees.