Giant Redwood Trees. Sharing photos of the giant redwood trees of northern california. Giant sequoias and redwood trees grow hundreds of feet tall.
Giant redwood, big tree and giant sequoia are all common names for sequoiadendron giganteum, an evergreen species of tree native to the western slopes of the sierra nevada mountains in california. We also have an assortment of giant sequoia bonsai trees along with many species of western. Redwood is a common name used for three species of trees with red or reddish colored wood, which are part of the subfamily sequoioideae of the cypress family, cupressaceae, of the conifer grouping. Designated the national champion coast redwood for having the best.
You will see giant redwood and coast redwood trees of varying ages, but in the main they will be around a hundred to a hundred and sixty years old.
Some are older than christianity, and they are only in california. California redwood tree sapling in pot about 16 inches high. Although the giant sequoia and redwood are closely related, they exhibit shape and size.—the giant sequoia is the largest tree in the world in volume and has an immense trunk with very slight. The tallest redwood tree in california lives only a short ways from where much of this video took place.