Giant Sequoia

Sequoiadendron giganteum Origin: California  Improvement status: Wild Seeds per packet: ~20 BOTANICAL SAMPLE - NOT GERMINATION TESTED Life cycle: Perennial Giant sequoias are among the most charismatic and impressive trees on the planet. They are the largest trees in the world (by weight and volume), reaching upwards of 2000 tons. That's 4 million pounds! The tallest giant sequoias have reached over 300 feet in height, surpassed only by their cousin the Coast Redwood and a small handful of other species. Native to but a few counties in central California, they have proven quite adaptable far beyond their native range, though they are unlikely to achieve quite the same scale elsewhere. Wild trees can live upwards of 3,000 years.  In France, there is a giant sequoia tree planted around 1856 that has reached 190 feet. Outside Philadelphia, in what's now Tyler Arboretum, lives another giant sequoia planted in 1856 (by brothers Jacob and Minshall Painter, who established an arboretum with o