Lindsey Creek tree

The Lindsey Creek Tree is the largest single-stem organism (tree) thus far known to have existed historically. It was a coast redwood (also known as California redwood), a member of the species Sequoia sempervirens. When it was uprooted and felled by a storm in 1905, its mass was at least 3,630 short tons, 3.3 million kilograms, or 7.26 million pounds; and its trunk volume was at least 2,550 cubic meters (90,000 cubic feet).[1]

References

  1. ^ The Most Massive Tree, Zilkha Biomass Energy

Further reading

  • Walter Fry and John Roberts White. Big Trees. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press; London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press; First Printing, 1930, xvi, 126 pp.; ill.; 22.2 cm. x 14.4 cm.
  • Donald Culross Peattie. A Natural History of Western Trees. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. ISBN 978-0395581759.

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