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Sequoiadendron giganteum

Index Sequoiadendron giganteum

Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; also known as giant redwood, Sierra redwood, Sierran redwood, Wellingtonia or simply Big Treea nickname used by John Muir) is the sole living species in the genus Sequoiadendron, and one of three species of coniferous trees known as redwoods, classified in the family Cupressaceae in the subfamily Sequoioideae, together with Sequoia sempervirens (coast redwood) and Metasequoia glyptostroboides (dawn redwood). [1]

166 relations: A. C. McClurg, Abies concolor, Aerial root, Alder Creek Grove, Alluvium, American River, Arecaceae, Arnold Arboretum, Atwell Mill Grove, Ballarat Botanical Gardens, Belgrade, Benmore Botanic Garden, Biddulph Grange, Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum, Boole (tree), Boston, Bristol, Rhode Island, British Columbia, Bury Me in Redwood Country, Calaveras Big Trees State Park, California, California Legacy Project, Capillary action, Carpenter ant, Cercospora, Cherokee syllabary, Chile, Christchurch, Christmas tree, Colorado, Conifer cone, Convection, Converse Basin, Cretaceous, Cultivar, Cupressaceae, Czech Republic, Daylesford, Victoria, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Dendrochronology, Denmark, Douglas squirrel, Evergreen, Exeter, Finger Lakes, Fossil, France, Franklin (tree), Fungus, Garfield Grove, ..., General Grant (tree), General Grant Grove, General Sherman (tree), Genesis (tree), Giant Forest, Giant Sequoia National Monument, Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, Grafting, Grizzly Giant, Horticulture, Hume-Bennett Lumber Company, Humus, Ice age, International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants, Italy, John J. Tyler Arboretum, John Lindley, John Muir, John Theodore Buchholz, Joseph Decaisne, Josiah Whitney, Kaldenkirchen Sequoia Farm, Kew, Kew Gardens, King Arthur (tree), Kings Canyon National Park, Kings River (California), Largest organisms, Lazarevac, Lincoln (tree), List of giant sequoia groves, List of longest-living organisms, List of superlative trees, Longhorn beetle, Longwood Gardens, Mariposa Grove, Massachusetts, Metasequoia, Michigan, Monroe (tree), Mother of the Forest, Mount Banda Banda, Mountain Home Grove, National Arboretum Canberra, National Park Service, Native Americans in the United States, New England, New Forest, New Jersey, New South Wales, New York (state), Old-growth forest, Orange, New South Wales, Oregon, Ornamental plant, Osmotic pressure, Otto Kuntze, Pacific Northwest, Patrick Matthew, Perthshire, Phymatodes nitidus, Picton, New Zealand, Piedmont, Pinophyta, Placer County, California, Plantation, Poland, President (tree), Queenstown, New Zealand, Rangiora High School, Redwood Mountain Grove, Ribeauvillé, Ringwood State Park, Ringwood, New Jersey, Riverside County, California, Roccavione, Sabiaceae, San Jacinto Peak, Seed, Seedbed, Sequoia National Forest, Sequoia National Park, Sequoia sempervirens, Sequoiadendron, Sequoioideae, Sequoyah, Serbia, Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Skylands (estate), Snow, South Island, Staffordshire, Stagg (tree), Stephan Endlicher, Stephen C. Sillett, The House (trees), Tonne, Tourism, Tree, Trunk (botany), Tulare County, California, Ultraviolet, United States, United States Forest Service, University of Hamburg, Vajont Dam, Veitch Nurseries, Volume, Washington (state), Washington (tree), Washingtonia, Wildfire, William Lobb, Wilmington, Delaware, Xylem, Yosemite National Park. Expand index (116 more) »

A. C. McClurg

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Abies concolor

Abies concolor, the white fir, is a coniferous tree in the pine family Pinaceae.

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Aerial root

Aerial roots are roots above the ground.

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Alder Creek Grove

Alder Creek Grove is a Sequoiadendron giganteum grove located within the Giant Sequoia National Monument in California, USA.

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Alluvium

Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.

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American River

The American River (Río de los Americanos during the period before 1847 ruled by Mexico) is a 120-mile-long river in California that runs from the Sierra Nevada mountain range to its confluence with the Sacramento River in the Sacramento Valley.

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Arecaceae

The Arecaceae are a botanical family of perennial trees, climbers, shrubs, and acaules commonly known as palm trees (owing to historical usage, the family is alternatively called Palmae).

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Arnold Arboretum

The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is an arboretum located in the Jamaica Plain and Roslindale sections of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Atwell Mill Grove

Atwell Mill Grove is a giant sequoia grove in the east fork of the Kaweah watershed area in California.

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Ballarat Botanical Gardens

The Ballarat Botanical Gardens Reserve, located on the western shore of picturesque Lake Wendouree, in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, covers an area of 40 hectares which is divided into three distinct zones.

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Belgrade

Belgrade (Beograd / Београд, meaning "White city",; names in other languages) is the capital and largest city of Serbia.

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Benmore Botanic Garden

Benmore Botanic Garden; formerly known as the Younger Botanic Garden, is a large botanical garden situated in Strath Eachaig at the foot of Beinn Mhòr, on the Cowal peninsula, in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

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Biddulph Grange

Biddulph Grange is a National Trust landscaped garden, in Biddulph near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.

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Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum

The Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum is an arboretum of, located at 101 Ferry Road, Bristol, Rhode Island, midway between Newport and Providence, Rhode Island, on Bristol Harbor with views over Narragansett Bay.

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Boole (tree)

The Boole Tree is a giant sequoia in Converse Basin grove of Giant Sequoia National Monument, in the Sierra Nevada, in Fresno County, California.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Bristol, Rhode Island

Bristol is a town in the historic county seat of Bristol County, Rhode Island, United States.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Bury Me in Redwood Country

Bury Me in Redwood Country is a 2009 documentary film about the Redwood forest landscape.

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Calaveras Big Trees State Park

Calaveras Big Trees State Park is a state park of California, United States, preserving two groves of giant sequoia trees.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California Legacy Project

The California Legacy Project (CLP) began in 2000 as a project at Santa Clara University (SCU) in Santa Clara, CA and later partnered with Heyday Books in Berkeley, CA.

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Capillary action

Capillary action (sometimes capillarity, capillary motion, capillary effect, or wicking) is the ability of a liquid to flow in narrow spaces without the assistance of, or even in opposition to, external forces like gravity.

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Carpenter ant

Carpenter ants (Camponotus spp.) are large ants indigenous to many forested parts of the world.

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Cercospora

Cercospora is a genus of ascomycete fungi.

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Cherokee syllabary

The Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah to write the Cherokee language in the late 1810s and early 1820s.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a South American country occupying a long, narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Christchurch

Christchurch (Ōtautahi) is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand and the seat of the Canterbury Region.

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Christmas tree

A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer such as spruce, pine, or fir or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of Christmas.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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Conifer cone

A cone (in formal botanical usage: strobilus, plural strobili) is an organ on plants in the division Pinophyta (conifers) that contains the reproductive structures.

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Convection

Convection is the heat transfer due to bulk movement of molecules within fluids such as gases and liquids, including molten rock (rheid).

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Converse Basin

Converse Basin is a grove of giant sequoia (''Sequoiadendron giganteum'') trees located in the Giant Sequoia National Monument in the Sierra Nevada, in Fresno County, California.

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Cretaceous

The Cretaceous is a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya.

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Cultivar

The term cultivarCultivar has two denominations as explained in Formal definition.

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Cupressaceae

Cupressaceae is a conifer family, the cypress family, with worldwide distribution.

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Czech Republic

The Czech Republic (Česká republika), also known by its short-form name Czechia (Česko), is a landlocked country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west, Austria to the south, Slovakia to the east and Poland to the northeast.

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Daylesford, Victoria

Daylesford is a spa town located in the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, within the Shire of Hepburn, Victoria, Australia, approximately 108 kilometres north-west of Melbourne.

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Delaware County, Pennsylvania

Delaware County, colloquially referred to as Delco, is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Dendrochronology

Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in order to analyze atmospheric conditions during different periods in history.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Douglas squirrel

The Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) is a pine squirrel found in the Pacific coastal states of the United States as well as the southwestern coast of British Columbia in Canada.

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Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year, always green.

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Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city in Devon, England, with a population of 129,800 (mid-2016 EST).

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Finger Lakes

The Finger Lakes are a group of 11 long, narrow, roughly north–south lakes in an area called the Finger Lakes region in Central New York, in the United States.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Franklin (tree)

Franklin is a giant sequoia in Giant Forest, a sequoia grove where the largest tree in the world lives - the General Sherman.

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Fungus

A fungus (plural: fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.

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Garfield Grove

Garfield Grove is a Giant Sequoia grove near the town of Three Rivers, California.

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General Grant (tree)

The General Grant tree is the largest giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the General Grant Grove section of Kings Canyon National Park in California and the second largest tree in the world.

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General Grant Grove

General Grant Grove, a section of the greater Kings Canyon National Park, was established by the US Congress in 1890 and is located in Fresno County, California.

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General Sherman (tree)

General Sherman is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, in the U.S. state of California.

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Genesis (tree)

The Genesis Tree is a giant sequoia that is the seventh largest tree in the world.

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Giant Forest

The Giant Forest, famed for its giant sequoia trees, is within the United States' Sequoia National Park.

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Giant Sequoia National Monument

The Giant Sequoia National Monument is a U.S. National Monument located in the southern Sierra Nevada in eastern central California.

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Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria

The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria was celebrated on 20 June 1887 on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of her accession on 20 June 1837.

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Grafting

Grafting or graftage is a horticultural technique whereby tissues of plants are joined so as to continue their growth together.

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Grizzly Giant

The Grizzly Giant is a giant sequoia in Mariposa Grove, located in Yosemite National Park.

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Horticulture

Horticulture is the science and art of growing plants (fruits, vegetables, flowers, and any other cultivar).

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Hume-Bennett Lumber Company

The Hume-Bennett Lumber Company was a logging operation located in the Sequoia National Forest.

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Humus

In soil science, humus (derived in 1790–1800 from the Latin humus for earth, ground) denominates the fraction of soil organic matter that is amorphous and without the "cellular cake structure characteristic of plants, micro-organisms or animals." Humus significantly affects the bulk density of soil and contributes to its retention of moisture and nutrients.

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Ice age

An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants

The International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) is the set of rules and recommendations dealing with the formal botanical names that are given to plants, fungi and a few other groups of organisms, all those "traditionally treated as algae, fungi, or plants".

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Italy

Italy (Italia), officially the Italian Republic (Repubblica Italiana), is a sovereign state in Europe.

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John J. Tyler Arboretum

Tyler Arboretum is a nonprofit arboretum located at 515 Painter Road, Media, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.

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John Lindley

John Lindley FRS (5 February 1799 – 1 November 1865) was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.

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John Muir

John Muir (April 21, 1838 – December 24, 1914) also known as "John of the Mountains" and "Father of the National Parks", was an influential Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.

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John Theodore Buchholz

John Theodore Buchholz (1888–1951) was an American botanist, specialising in gymnosperms.

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Joseph Decaisne

Joseph Decaisne (7 March 1807 – 8 January 1882) was a French botanist and agronomist.

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Josiah Whitney

Josiah Dwight Whitney (November 23, 1819 – August 18, 1896) was an American geologist, professor of geology at Harvard University (from 1865), and chief of the California Geological Survey (1860–1874).

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Kaldenkirchen Sequoia Farm

The Kaldenkirchen Sequoia Farm (Sequoiafarm Kaldenkirchen) is a German arboretum that has been used as a biological institute for many years.

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Kew

Kew is a suburban district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, north-east of Richmond and west by south-west of Charing Cross; its population at the 2011 Census was 11,436.

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Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens is a botanical garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world".

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King Arthur (tree)

The King Arthur Tree is a giant sequoia located in Garfield Grove, the grove is near the town of Three Rivers in California.

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Kings Canyon National Park

Kings Canyon National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, in Fresno and Tulare Counties, California in the United States.

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Kings River (California)

The Kings River is a -long river draining the Sierra Nevada in central California in the United States.

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Largest organisms

The largest organisms found on Earth can be determined according to various aspects of an organism's size, such as: mass, volume, area, length, height, or even genome size.

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Lazarevac

Lazarevac (Лазаревац) is a municipality of the city of Belgrade.

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Lincoln (tree)

The Lincoln Tree is the name of a huge giant sequoia located in Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park.

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List of giant sequoia groves

The following is a list of giant sequoia groves.

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List of longest-living organisms

This is a list of the longest-living organisms; that is, the individuals (in some instances, clones) of a species.

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List of superlative trees

The world's superlative trees can be ranked by any factor.

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Longhorn beetle

The longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae; also known as long-horned or longhorn beetles or longicorns) are a cosmopolitan family of beetles, typically characterized by extremely long antennae, which are often as long as or longer than the beetle's body.

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Longwood Gardens

Longwood Gardens is an American botanical garden.

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Mariposa Grove

Mariposa Grove is a sequoia grove located near Wawona, California, United States, in the southernmost part of Yosemite National Park.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Metasequoia

Metasequoia (dawn redwood) is a fast-growing, deciduous tree, and the sole living species, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, is one of three species of conifers known as redwoods.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.

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Monroe (tree)

Monroe is a huge giant sequoia tree in Giant Forest, a sequoia grove where the largest tree in the world lives - the General Sherman.

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Mother of the Forest

The Mother of the Forest (667 BCE – 1854 CE) was an ancient and huge Sequoiadendron giganteum tree.

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Mount Banda Banda

Mount Banda Banda, a mountain of the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia, is situated from Sydney within the Willi Willi National Park.

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Mountain Home Grove

Mountain Home Grove is a grove of Giant Sequoia trees that is located in the southern part of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, and includes some of the largest trees in the world.

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National Arboretum Canberra

The National Arboretum Canberra is a 250-hectare (618 acre) arboretum in Canberra, the national capital of Australia, created after the area was burned out as a result of the Christmas 2001 and 2003 Canberra bushfires: The Himalayan Cedar forest lost about one third of its trees, and the commercial Radiata Pine plantation was burned out, allowing the arboretum to be created.

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National Park Service

The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.

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New England

New England is a geographical region comprising six states of the northeastern United States: Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

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New Forest

The New Forest is an area of southern England which includes one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in the heavily populated south-east of England.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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Old-growth forest

An old-growth forest — also termed primary forest, virgin forest, primeval forest, or late seral forest— is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance and thereby exhibits unique ecological features and might be classified as a climax community.

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Orange, New South Wales

Orange is a city in the Central West region of New South Wales, Australia.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region on the West Coast of the United States.

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Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants are plants that are grown for decorative purposes in gardens and landscape design projects, as houseplants, for cut flowers and specimen display.

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Osmotic pressure

Osmotic pressure is the minimum pressure which needs to be applied to a solution to prevent the inward flow of its pure solvent across a semipermeable membrane.

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Otto Kuntze

Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze (23 June 1843 – 27 January 1907) was a German botanist.

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Pacific Northwest

The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Cascade Mountain Range on the east.

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Patrick Matthew

Patrick Matthew (20 October 1790 – 8 June 1874) was a Scottish grain merchant, fruit farmer, forester, and landowner, who contributed to the understanding of horticulture, silviculture, and agriculture in general, with a focus on maintaining the British navy and feeding new colonies.

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Perthshire

Perthshire (Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland.

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Phymatodes nitidus

Phymatodes nitidus is a species of longhorn beetle.

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Picton, New Zealand

Picton (Waitohi) is a town in the Marlborough Region of New Zealand's South Island.

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Piedmont

Piedmont (Piemonte,; Piedmontese, Occitan and Piemont; Piémont) is a region in northwest Italy, one of the 20 regions of the country.

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Pinophyta

The Pinophyta, also known as Coniferophyta or Coniferae, or commonly as conifers, are a division of vascular land plants containing a single extant class, Pinopsida.

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Placer County, California

Placer County, officially the County of Placer, is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Plantation

A plantation is a large-scale farm that specializes in cash crops.

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Poland

Poland (Polska), officially the Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska), is a country located in Central Europe.

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President (tree)

The President tree is the name of a giant sequoia located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in the United States, east of Visalia, California.

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Queenstown, New Zealand

Queenstown (Tāhuna) is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island.

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Rangiora High School

Rangiora High School is a state co-educational secondary school located in Rangiora, New Zealand.

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Redwood Mountain Grove

Redwood Mountain Grove is the largest grove of giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) trees on earth.

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Ribeauvillé

Ribeauvillé (Alsatian: Rappschwihr) is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

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Ringwood State Park

Ringwood State Park is a state park in Passaic County in northeastern New Jersey, USA.

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Ringwood, New Jersey

Ringwood is a borough in Passaic County, New Jersey, United States.

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Riverside County, California

Riverside County, California, is one of fifty-eight counties in the U.S. state of California.

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Roccavione

Roccavione is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about south of Turin and about southwest of Cuneo.

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Sabiaceae

Sabiaceae is a family of flowering plants that were placed in the order Proteales according to the APG IV system.

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San Jacinto Peak

San Jacinto Peak (often designated Mount San Jacinto, pronounced or) is the highest peak of the San Jacinto Mountains, and of Riverside County, California.

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Seed

A seed is an embryonic plant enclosed in a protective outer covering.

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Seedbed

A seedbed or seedling bed is the local soil environment in which seeds are planted.

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Sequoia National Forest

Sequoia National Forest is located in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains of California.

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Sequoia National Park

Sequoia National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California, in the United States.

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Sequoia sempervirens

Sequoia sempervirens Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607 is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated in Taxodiaceae).

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Sequoiadendron

Sequoiadendron is a genus of evergreen trees, with two species, only one of which survives to the present.

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Sequoioideae

Sequoioideae (redwoods) is a subfamily of coniferous trees within the family Cupressaceae.

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Sequoyah

Sequoyah (ᏍᏏᏉᏯ Ssiquoya, as he signed his name, or ᏎᏉᏯ Se-quo-ya, as is often spelled in Cherokee; named in English George Gist or George Guess) (17701843), was a Cherokee silversmith.

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Serbia

Serbia (Србија / Srbija),Pannonian Rusyn: Сербия; Szerbia; Albanian and Romanian: Serbia; Slovak and Czech: Srbsko,; Сърбия.

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Sierra Nevada (U.S.)

The Sierra Nevada (snowy saw range) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.

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Skylands (estate)

Skylands is a 1,119 acres (4.5 km²) estate property located in Ringwood State Park in Ringwood, New Jersey, a borough in Passaic County in the state of New Jersey.

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Snow

Snow refers to forms of ice crystals that precipitate from the atmosphere (usually from clouds) and undergo changes on the Earth's surface.

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South Island

The South Island (Māori: Te Waipounamu) is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island.

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Staffordshire

Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.

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Stagg (tree)

The Stagg Tree (formerly known as the Day Tree) is a giant sequoia in Alder Creek Grove in California's Sierra Nevada mountains.

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Stephan Endlicher

Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher also known as Endlicher István László (24 June 1804, Pressburg (Bratislava) – 28 March 1849, Vienna) was an Austrian botanist, numismatist and Sinologist.

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Stephen C. Sillett

Stephen C. Sillett (born March 19, 1968) is an American botanist specializing in old growth forest canopies.

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The House (trees)

The House or The House Group is a group of monumental Giant Sequoias in the Giant Forest in Sequoia National Park in California, United States.

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Tonne

The tonne (Non-SI unit, symbol: t), commonly referred to as the metric ton in the United States, is a non-SI metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms;.

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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure or business; also the theory and practice of touring, the business of attracting, accommodating, and entertaining tourists, and the business of operating tours.

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Tree

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species.

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Trunk (botany)

In botany, the trunk (or bole) is the stem and main wooden axis of a tree, which is an important feature in tree identification, and which often differs markedly from the bottom of the trunk to the top, depending on the species.

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Tulare County, California

Tulare County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Ultraviolet

Ultraviolet (UV) is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength from 10 nm to 400 nm, shorter than that of visible light but longer than X-rays.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Forest Service

The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands, which encompass.

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University of Hamburg

The University of Hamburg (Universität Hamburg, also referred to as UHH) is a comprehensive university in Hamburg, Germany.

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Vajont Dam

The Vajont Dam (or Vaiont Dam) is a disused dam, completed in 1959 in the valley of the Vajont River under Monte Toc, in the municipality of Erto e Casso, 100 km (60 miles) north of Venice, Italy.

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Veitch Nurseries

The Veitch Nurseries were the largest group of family-run plant nurseries in Europe during the 19th century.

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Volume

Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by a closed surface, for example, the space that a substance (solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) or shape occupies or contains.

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Washington (state)

Washington, officially the State of Washington, is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Washington (tree)

The Washington tree is a giant sequoia in the Giant Forest Grove in Tulare County, California, within Sequoia National Park.

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Washingtonia

Washingtonia is a genus of palms, native to the southwestern United States (in southern California, southwest Arizona, Nevada, and Texas) and northwest Mexico (in northern Baja California and Sonora).

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Wildfire

A wildfire or wildland fire is a fire in an area of combustible vegetation that occurs in the countryside or rural area.

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William Lobb

William Lobb (1809 – 3 May 1864) was a Cornish plant collector, employed by Veitch Nurseries of Exeter, who was responsible for the commercial introduction to England of Araucaria araucana (the monkey-puzzle tree) from Chile and the massive Sequoiadendron giganteum (Wellingtonia) from North America.

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Wilmington, Delaware

Wilmington (Lenape: Paxahakink, Pakehakink) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Delaware.

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Xylem

Xylem is one of the two types of transport tissue in vascular plants, phloem being the other.

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Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park is an American national park lying in the western Sierra Nevada of California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoiadendron_giganteum

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