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12 | 75.00% |
| Curtain Fig |
  
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4 | 25.00% |
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19-Sep-2005
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Nudist Bonsai Farmer
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Which one is the largest tree?
Hello everyone...
I was wondering which tree is the largest out of these two... The first tree is The General Sherman... And the second tree is The Curtain Fig...My apologies for the sideways photo. Happy Growing Tai Last edited by FlyBri : 19-Sep-2005 at 10:38 PM. Reason: I took the liberty of fixing your pic. Fly. |
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20-Sep-2005
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Bonsai Barry
 
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I have several books which state that the General Sherman is the largest tree in the world... in mass. However, there are some trees that are taller (coastal redwoords) and some trees that have a greater diameter but lack its height.
Technically, I suppose that an aspen grove that is derived from the same rootbase is genetically the largest tree.
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Bonsai Barry "Our talent lies in our choices." Last edited by Bonsai Barry : 20-Sep-2005 at 11:04 AM. |
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20-Sep-2005
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I'll vote for the General
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20-Sep-2005
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My guess is for the General. There's alot of cubic feet of lumber in that there trunk.
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20-Sep-2005
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The General Sherman is the record holder for the largest living thing on the planet. It is 275 feet (83.3 meters) tall, 102.6 feet (31.3 meters) in circumference, and incorporates 52,500 cubic feet (1,486.6 cubic meters) of lumber.
The fig tree you have listed is impressive, but doesn't have as much mass. It's not a solid piece of wood, but a curtain of air roots supporting a canopy. The General is indeed, massive. It's 52,500 cubic feet of wood would produce about 625,000 board feet of lumber, if my math is correct. That's enough to build about 50, entire 2000-sq. ft. wood-framed houses. |
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20-Sep-2005
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Well, for crying out loud, why hasn't someone harvested it yet?  pootsie |
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20-Sep-2005
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Bonsai Barry
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A bit of trivia. The General Sherman Tree was once named the Karl Marx tree. Before it was a National Park, a commune called the Kaweah Colony, a utopian Socialist community owned the land and hoped to make a living harvesting trees. It was their control of the trees that prompted the US Congress to declare this area a National Park in 1906 (nearly a decade before the National Parks System was created).
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