Tallest tree

Hi guys have you ever seen a tallest tree in the world ? Here it is

Tallest tree

The world's tallest tree is called the Stratosphere Giant. It grows in the Rockefeller Forest Humboldt Redwoods State Park California. At 11232m, this redwood is almost three times the height of the Statue of Liberty in New York. Most of Britain's tallest trees are in Scotland: a Douglas fir growing in Tayside, Scotland, is the record-holder at 64.5m.

Biggest living thing

The General Sherman giant sequoia in Sequoia National Park California, USA, is the world's largest living thing. It is 83.8m tall and measures 2.53m round its mighty trunk. Including its huge root system, the tree weighs about 2,000 tonnes. It contains enough timber to make shelves for almost a million books. If all this timber was made into pencils and they were laid end to end, they would more than reach around the Equator.

Largest and smelliest flower The flower of the rafflesia, or stinking corpse lily measures almost 1m across and weighs 11kg. It is also one of the world's smelliest flowers, with an odour like rotting flesh. The smell attracts flies. which pollinate the plant

Oldest trees The bristlecone pines in California

and Nevada, USA, are almost 5.000 years old and were long believed to be the oldest trees Latest research suggests that creosote bushes in the USA Mojave Desert may be even older - some of these plants vegan life nearly 12,000 years ago Other long-lived trees include:

Tree

Japanese cedar

Baobab

Yew

Sequoia

Olive

Cak

Age in years

7.200

5,150

5.000

30004000

20004000

500-600

Smallest flowering plant

Wolffia, a kind of duckweed, is just 0.6mm long and weighs about as much as two grains of salt. Its seeds are also the tiniest known - they weigh only 70 micrograms, as much as a

single grain of salt.

Largest seed

The seeds of the coco-de-mer palm are up to 30cm long and weigh an amazing 20kg.