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	TALL. The tallest tree in the world is almost three and a half times longer than the biggest animal ever found, a blue whale. HEAVY. The biggest tree in the world weighs three and a half times the heaviest blue whale ever found. OLD. Some giant sequoias are over 2500 years old!
				The world's tallest trees, the giant redwoods, grow in only one place in the world--the northern coast of California.
					*(Sequoiadendron semperviren)*
	"General Sherman" (Sequoiadendron giganteum)
		The total amount of wood in General Sherman-- 52 500 cubic feet/1490 cubic meters--makes it the Largest Living Thing in The World		Redwoods have been growing for 120 million years, since the age of dinosaurs. Unlike the dinosaurs, though, they're still around!
			Though some people disagree... [click for more]
		The bright orange color of the sequoia bark comes from chemicals inside the tree called tannins. The tannins make the tree resistant to fire and insects.
	Sequoia seeds are about the size of a grain of oatmeal. One seed is so light that 90 000 of them weigh only 1 pound or ½ kilogram. Squirrels eating the pine cones often free the seeds from inside.	This helps the trees live long enough--as long as 2000 years or more--to grow really big!
		Cabin built inside a fallen sequoia

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