Giant sequoias are the most massive trees in the world.

In terms of volume, giant sequoias may be the largest living things on the planet.

Even sea turtles and the giant sequoias had to buy out someday.

"We do not have any plan whatsoever for cutting the giant sequoias that people come there to see," he said.

Above, a few giant sequoias stood isolated on the canyon rim.

Two of its trees are among the 30 largest Giant Sequoias in the world.

Giant sequoias are the world's largest trees by volume.

Cleveland Tree: One of the top 40 largest giant sequoias.

Watching like sentinels over the lesser trees were giant sequoias, three or four hundred feet high.

In general, higher elevation campgrounds are cooler and closer to giant sequoias.

Giant sequoias, some of them 2,000 years old, grow an inch in diameter in a good year.

It exists at the base of several giant sequoias forming a natural cathedral between the branches.

This grove was once the second largest grove of giant sequoias in the world.

"I mean, what's it like, guarding those giant sequoias?"

However, Tharp's attempts to conserve the giant sequoias were at first met with only limited success.

The Mountain Home grove is one of the best groves for seeing big giant sequoias.

Among these are giant sequoias, redwoods, great firs, and sugar pines.

They looked like the photographs of the giant sequoias on the Pacific Coast, but, well, the thing was simply impossible.

Two trails through the Giant Sequoias are paved, but both have steep grades.

The grove contains six old growth giant sequoias, two of which are considered "giant" size.

Few groves, however, have sufficient young trees to maintain the present density of mature giant sequoias for the future.

Giant sequoias are resistant to decay, so their remains can linger for a long period of time if undisturbed.

Despite that, the tree is still living, as Giant Sequoias do not require a whole trunk to survive.

"Despite their tremendous size, giant sequoias are vulnerable.

The majority of giant sequoias are currently undergoing a gradual decline in density since European settlement.

I wanted a different feel than the giant redwoods.

Yes - even the giant redwoods - they got rotten branches.

Muhammad Ali's opponents are going down like giant redwoods in the night.

Say California, and they think of giant redwoods and Hollywood.

Although many refer to the tree as "she," giant redwoods produce both male and female cones.

A21 California decided to allow logging of giant redwoods.

Thus, the majority of common facilities are entertainment venues, interspersed among the giant redwoods.

Overhead, the tree's branches spread in distinct terraces, not unlike giant redwoods.

The trees are now mature, with giant redwoods and monkey-puzzle trees.

As the light shifts, glass appears arboreal, and the structure becomes a cathedral of giant redwoods.

The second featured the entire planet being overrun by giant Redwoods and spotted owls.

Gaze in awe at giant redwoods, colossal cliffs and rushing waterfalls.

The giant redwoods grow in California.

The strange biological world at the tops of giant redwoods obsesses a group of climbers.

America has seen the bison leave the prairies, giant redwoods felled and the bald eagle face extinction.

We are located in Northern California amongst the Giant Redwoods.

Tall trees like giant redwoods stood either side of the path, in random ranks as far as I could see into the darkness.

Pass giant redwoods and colossal cliffs.

And the giant redwoods.

"Oograah' means everything from moss to giant redwoods.

California has decided to allow limited logging of giant redwoods in the last privately owned virgin stand of the trees in the world.

Two giant redwoods - virtually the sole survivors - now overlook the new pinetum planted in April this year.

A domed roof hinted vaguely toward Islamic influences and the heavy wooden doors seemed carved from giant redwoods.

He also found that the giant redwoods, lately living in California, were once rooted in Nevada's ancient wet forestland.

Groves of Sequoiadendron giganteum, some 3,000 years old and 10 stories high, stand kingly in the forest.

A vernacular name for the coniferous tree Sequoiadendron giganteum.

The conifer, Sequoiadendron giganteum, is related to the California redwood tree.

The largest species, Sequoiadendron giganteum, can reach up to 94.8 m tall and 17 m across.

A Sequoiadendron giganteum in the old filled moat which extends along the wall of the old cemetery.

Seven large tree Giant Sequoias (Sequoiadendron giganteum) planted in about 1888.

S. chaneyi is considered the probable direct ancestor to the extant Sequoiadendron giganteum.

Sequoiadendron giganteum (the big tree) can be found in the southern portion of California and is a massive tree attaining great girth.

At last I entered the dark and mysterious groves of the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum, according to my brochure).

Giant redwood (Sequoiadendron giganteum)

Forest Service database entry on Sequoiadendron giganteum, fs.

It contains hiking paths and mature, labeled trees including araucaria and Sequoiadendron giganteum.

The walled garden has a dominating 100-foot Wellingtonia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the centre of the lawn.

Wellingtonia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)

Until 1995, the meadow in front of the cage was dominated by an almost 120 years old Giant Sequoya (Sequoiadendron giganteum).

The largest tree in the world, by volume, is a Sequoiadendron giganteum, the General Sherman Tree.

Conifers Around the World: Sequoiadendron giganteum - Giant Sequoia.

Several impressive specimens of Sequoiadendron giganteum can be found in the South Island of New Zealand.

Redwood Mountain Grove is the largest grove of giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) on earth.

Evidence of previous blazes is recorded in scars in the rings of the Sequoiadendron giganteum, or giant sequoias, in the area.

Eventually in 1939, after several attempts to find an acceptable name, the tree was given the name Sequoiadendron giganteum by John Buchholz.

Some of the largest seeds come from trees, but the largest tree, Sequoiadendron giganteum, produces one of the smallest tree seeds.

The Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) has many small depressions in its bark made by Treecreepers.

The biggest Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron Giganteum) in Europe, with a circumference of 13,3 m, is in a private garden.

An attraction in Mühlhäuser Stadtwald are the Redwood trees (Sequoiadendron giganteum) from 1884.