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Giant sequoia in Würzburg's Ringpark

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Giant sequoia in Würzburg's Ringpark

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Giant sequoia in Würzburg's Ringpark

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Location: Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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1. Old Main Bridge, Würzburg – View of Würzburg loop from Würzburg Hauptbahnhof

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2. Steinburg Castle – View of Steinburg loop from Grombühl

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3. Alte Mainbrücke Würzburg – View of Marienberg Fortress loop from Sanderau

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Breggi

January 8, 2019

Mamut trees belong to the plant family of cypresses. They belong with over 100 m to the largest trees on earth.
They are over 1500 years old. These trees themselves survive fire because their bark secretes a liquid when exposed to heat. Even against insects, they are protected with their tannic acid-containing bark. They already existed during the dinosaur era and covered a large part of the earth.

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Breggi

January 8, 2019

This specimen is in the eastern ring park in Würzburg

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Tevion1505 (Andreas)

July 31, 2021

The giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), sometimes also called mountain sequoia or wellingtonia, is the only species in the monotypic plant genus Sequoiadendron in the subfamily of sequoias (Sequoioideae) within the cypress family (Cupressaceae). It is native to the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in California.

In English, not only the giant sequoia - giant redwood - but also the coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and the primeval sequoia (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) - dawn redwood - are referred to as redwood.

The giant sequoia is an evergreen tree that can reach heights of up to 95 meters and a trunk circumference of over 34 meters at the very wide base. In the case of the largest specimens, the trunk diameter measured just above the ground can be over 10 meters, measured at a height of 1.30 m as diameter at chest height over 8 meters. The tree forms a high, narrow, conical crown, whereby the trunks can be free of knots for up to 50 meters in length when they are old. The crowns of the famous, largest specimens, which are more than three millennia old, often show traces of storm damage and lightning damage.

The growth of young trees only increases moderately quickly, but the trunk circumference and the diameter of the rootstock increase exceptionally quickly. In experimental forest cultivation, annual increases of over 30 solid cubic meters per hectare were recorded. With up to 95 m, the giant sequoia is not as high as the coastal redwood, which can grow up to 115 m. In return, the giant sequoia tree has a larger trunk diameter and is therefore significantly more massive. The General Sherman Tree is the largest living tree on earth with a trunk volume of 1,486.9 cubic meters (52,508 cubic feet), according to earlier data 1,489 cubic meters.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesenmammutbaum

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Giant sequoia in Würzburg's Ringpark

1. Old Main Bridge, Würzburg – View of Würzburg loop from Würzburg Hauptbahnhof

2. Steinburg Castle – View of Steinburg loop from Grombühl

3. Alte Mainbrücke Würzburg – View of Marienberg Fortress loop from Sanderau

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