What is the Largest Tree in The World?

[@jakobhinton7600]

Excellent park ranger! Very well spoken and knowledgeable

[@beanmchne]

Absolutely amazing. Thanks for posting.

[@astrodog46]

Piyush Dixit - The General Sherman like all mature sequoias simply got lucky. It avoided fire over the course of its life time. More than likely the Sherman has lived through some where between 120 and 150 fires over the course of its lifetime so far to this point. The biggest point in which it avoided fire was in the first 30 to 50 years of its life. A fire does not act as a tidal wave washing over everything. Inside a fire pockets will be missed. All mature sequoias got lucky in the first 30 to 50 years of their lives and missed fires. As such they grew stronger and were able to grow to a point to then be strong enough to survive a direct impact from a fire in the future.

[@powerboat5396]

kairaru in its time (approx. 125 years ago), was the largest tree in the world by volume and was over 4000 years old

[@powerboat5396]

and there was another one that had a volume of 3200 m3 ( 114 500 ft3 )!!

[@michaelkbutler]

wonderful.

[@piydix]

Very good presentation. However, 2000 years back the General Sherman won't be as big as it is now so the logic that the lesser trees got burnt the General Sherman continued to grow does not seem very convincing.