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or lead to vandalism. The tree is estimated to contain 34,914 cubic feet (988.7 m) of wood volume, and is surrounded by other coastal redwoods known as some of the largest of the species. Of the surrounding redwood trees, some have names from the discoverers, such as El Viejo del Norte,
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that is 26 feet (7.9 m) in diameter at breast height (with multiple stems included), and 320 feet (98 m) in height. It is the world's fifth largest coast redwood in terms of wood volume (the
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was listed as the largest single-stem coast redwood tree, in part because the basal measurements of the Lost Monarch contain multiple stems).
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Epiphyte communities on redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in northwestern California
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5th largest known living coast redwood when counting only the main stem
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Screaming Titans, Eärendil and Elwing, Stalagmight, and others.
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Index


Sequoia sempervirens
Height
Volume of trunk
coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens)
Northern California
Del Norte Titan
botanist
Stephen C. Sillett
naturalist
Michael Taylor
Grove of Titans
Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park
ecosystem
epiphytes
Polypodium scouleri
List of individual trees
ISBN
0-295-98140-7


To Find the Biggest Tree
ISBN
978-1-878441-09-6
Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don) Endlicher 1847
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring
ISBN
978-1-58836-603-0

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