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General Sherman - World's Largest Tree
The world's largest tree by volume is General Sherman, a sequoia tree thats believed to be between 2,300 and 2,700 years old that is located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park, east of Visalia, California. The estimated bole volume for the tree is 1,487 cubic meter (52,508 cubic feet).
This sequoia tree was named after general William Tecumesh Sherman, the American Civil War leader by naturalist James Wolverton in 1879. The tree stands 83.8 meter (275 feet) and because of it's large volume, it is also the largest single organism by volume.
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