제너럴 셔먼 트리-The General Sherman Tree-Sequoiadendron giganteum-거삼나무

General Sherman is a giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) tree located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, in the U.S. state of California. By volume, it is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth. It is estimated to be around 2,200 to 2,700 years old.

While General Sherman is the largest currently living tree, it is not the largest historically recorded tree. The Lindsey Creek tree, with more than 90,000 cubic feet (2,500 cubic meters) almost twice the volume of General Sherman, was reported felled by a storm in 1905. Another larger coast redwood, the Crannell Creek Giant, a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) cut down in the mid-1940s near Trinidad, California, is estimated to have been 15–25% larger than the General Sherman Tree by volume.

The General Sherman Tree was named after the American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman. The official story, which may be apocryphal, claims the tree was named in 1879 by naturalist James Wolverton, who had served as a lieutenant in the 9th Indiana Cavalry under Sherman.

Seven years later, in 1886, the land came under the control of the Kaweah Colony, a utopian socialist community whose economy was based on logging. Noting the pivotal role that Sherman had played in the Indian Wars and his forced relocation of native American tribes, they renamed the tree in honor of Karl Marx.[6] However, the community was disbanded in 1892, primarily as a result of the establishment of Sequoia National Park, and the tree reverted to its previous name.

In 1931, following comparisons with the nearby General Grant tree, General Sherman was identified as the largest tree in the world. One result of this process was that wood volume became widely accepted as the standard for establishing and comparing the size of different trees.

In January 2006, the largest branch on the tree (seen most commonly, in older photos, as an "L" or golf-club shape, protruding from about a quarter of the way down the trunk) broke off. There were no witnesses to the incident, and the branch – larger than most tree trunks; diameter over 2 m (6.6 ft) and length over 30 m (98 ft) – smashed part of the perimeter fence and cratered the pavement of the surrounding walkway. The breakage is not believed to be indicative of any abnormalities in the tree's health, and may even be a natural defense mechanism against adverse weather conditions.

On September 16, 2021, the tree was wrapped in aluminum foil to protect it from the KNP complex fires.

General ShermanSpeciesCoordinatesHeightDiameterVolume of trunkDate seeded

General Sherman is the largest single stem tree in the world.

General Sherman

Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)

36°34′54″N 118°45′05.5″WCoordinates: 36°34′54″N 118°45′05.5″W

83.8 m (275 ft)

11 m (36 ft)

1,487 m3 (52,500 cu ft)

700 BC – 300 BC

male

female

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Sequoiadendron giganteum

과명	Taxodiaceae (낙우송과)	속명	Sequoiadendron (세쿼이아덴드론속)
전체학명	[정명] Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl.) J.Buchholz	추천명	거삼나무
이명		외국명	Redwood giant,Giant sequoia,Big tree,Sierra redwood,Big tree Giant

추천명변경: 세쿼이아덴드론 -> 거삼나무

 

우리는 낙우송과 위키에서는 측백나무과

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