Lindsay Creek Tree

The Lindsey Creek Tree is the largest single-stem organism (tree) thus far known to have existed historically. It was a coast redwood (also known as California redwood), a member of the species Sequoia sempervirens. It grew in Fieldbrook, California, along the Lindsay Creek, which feeds into the Mad River. When it was uprooted and felled by a storm in 1905, its mass was at least 3,630 short tons, 3.3 million kilograms, or 7.26 million pounds; and its trunk volume was at least 2,550 cubic meters (90,000 cubic feet). In terms of volume, this would make it close to twice the size of the largest living single-stem tree, the giant sequoia known as General Sherman.

Further reading

• Walter Fry and John Roberts White. Big Trees. Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press; London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press; First Printing, 1930, xvi, 126 pp.; ill.; 22.2 cm. x 14.4 cm.
• Donald Culross Peattie. A Natural History of Western Trees. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950. ISBN 978-0-395-58175-9.

External links

• Interesting Tree Facts, United Nations Environment Programme