Lindsay Creek Tree
Appearance
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.[1] 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).[2] 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.
References
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.