World’s largest tree: General Sherman is about 2200 years old and its trunk weighs nearly 1400 tonnes |
World’s largest tree: General Sherman is about 2200 years old and its trunk weighs nearly 1400 tonnes The world’s largest tree by volume stands in a fenced clearing in Sequoia National Park, California, where the air is thinner and cooler than the valley below. Visitors walk a paved trail and arrive without much warning at…