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  1. Pando (tree) - Wikipedia

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    Pando aspen grove at Fishlake National Forest. Pando (from Latin pando 'I spread'), [ 1 ] the world's largest tree, is a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) located in Sevier County, Utah, in the Fishlake National Forest. A male clonal organism, Pando has an estimated 47,000 stems (ramets) that appear to be individual trees, but in fact ...

  2. Alerce Milenario - Wikipedia

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    Alerce Milenario[1] (Spanish: "Millennial Alerce" or "Millennial Larch") or Gran Abuelo, [2] also known in English as Great-Grandfather, [3] is the largest tree in Chile's Alerce Costero National Park. [1] While it has been on the list of oldest trees, this Alerce tree (Fitzroya cupressoides) is now rivalling others to be possibly the oldest ...

  3. Jōmon Sugi - Wikipedia

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    Jōmon Sugi (縄文杉) is a large Cryptomeria tree (yakusugi) located on Yakushima, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Japan. It is the oldest and largest among the old-growth cryptomeria trees on the island, and is estimated to be between 2,170 [2] and 7,200 years old. [3][4][5][6] Other estimates of the tree's age include "at least 5,000 years ...

  4. List of largest giant sequoias - Wikipedia

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    This tree was the second-largest tree in the world (only the General Sherman tree was larger) until September 2003, when the tree lost a portion of its crown as a result of a fire caused by a lightning strike. [1] [14] This reduced its height from nearly 78 meters (255 ft) to about 70 meters (229 ft). The structurally weakened tree partially ...

  5. Corellon Larethian - Wikipedia

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    Chaos, Good, Protection, War. In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Corellon Larethian is the leader of the elven pantheon, and the deity of Magic, Music, Arts, Crafts, Poetry, and Warfare. Corellon is also considered a member of the default D&D pantheon. Corellon is the creator and preserver of the elven race, and governs those things ...

  6. Sequoia sempervirens - Wikipedia

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    It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living 1,200–2,200 years or more. [4] This species includes the tallest living trees on Earth, reaching up to 115.9 m (380.1 ft) in height (without the roots) and up to 8.9 m (29 ft) in diameter at breast height. These trees are also among the longest-living trees on Earth.

  7. Dugout canoe - Wikipedia

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    In German, the craft is known as Einbaum (one-tree). In the old Hanseatic town of Stralsund, three log-boats were excavated in 2002. Two of the boats were around 7,000 years old and are the oldest boats found in the Baltic area. The third boat (6,000 years old) was 12 meters (39 ft) long and holds the record as the longest dugout in the region.

  8. Pinus lambertiana - Wikipedia

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    Pinus lambertiana. Douglas. Natural range of Pinus lambertiana. Pinus lambertiana (commonly known as the sugar pine or sugar cone pine) is the tallest and most massive pine tree, and has the longest cones of any conifer. The species name lambertiana was given by the Scottish botanist David Douglas, who named the tree in honour of the English ...