The tallest tree in the world is the giant Hyperion

The tallest tree in the world is a tree from the Cypress family, sequoia. On average, the height of the sequoia reaches ninety meters, and some specimens grow to one hundred and ten meters. The age of such trees reaches three thousand years.

The name Sequoyah comes from the Iroquois languages spoken by the Cherokee Indians. These languages use a unique syllabic alphabet. Invented this alphabet George Hess, he is Sequoia, - the leader of the Indian Cherokee tribe .

The tallest tree in the world has a crown in the shape of a cone, and its branches grow horizontally or slightly downward. The tree has a bark, the thickness of which reaches thirty centimeters. Its root in the earth extends to a shallow depth. Leaves reach a length of up to fifteen to twenty millimeters, at the ends of branches develop modified shoots - cones. In each cone, there are three to seven seeds that ripen to maturity and subsequently germinate.

The tallest tree in the world grows in California and the state of Washington, and also occurs in the province of British Columbia in the west of Canada. Sequin forests stretch along the Pacific coast of North America.

A necessary condition for the growth of the sequoia is the high humidity that the sea air carries. Therefore, sometimes trees grow near the edge of the sea, but sometimes grow and at an altitude of about a kilometer. The tallest trees in the world usually grow in ravines of great depth or in gorges, as there can be a flow of moist air all year round. Trees that grow in cool and windy conditions are higher than a layer of fog is formed, usually low and small.

Sequoia, which was given the name Hyperion, is the tallest tree in the world. In 2006, it was discovered in the Redwood National Park, north of the city of San Francisco, California, in the United States of America. The park area, overgrown with ancient redwoods, is almost forty five thousand hectares. Discoverers of the giant tree that survived to this day became naturalist Chris Atkins, along with ecologist Robert van Pelt, amateur naturalist Michael Taylor, biologist Steve Saillett.

As for our country, the tallest tree in Russia is the Siberian cedar, which grows right on the street of a small Kuzbass town of Berezovsky in the Kemerovo region. After measuring the height of the tree, experts found that its height reaches eighteen meters, and the circumference of the trunk is three meters thirty centimeters. The exact age of the tree is not yet established, but approximately it is two hundred and fifty years. More complete information about the age of cedar will probably be obtained only after a thorough examination. It is not yet clear whether the tree will be protected as a natural monument. To be recognized as such, a tree should not only have a solid age: it is necessary that it was associated with any unreasoned historical events or legends, giving.