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The largest Giant Sequoia outside of California, measured by diameter at breast height, can be found in Jefferson Park in Tacoma, WA. Source: (monumentaltrees.com)

This tree is absolutely massive, and is the largest Giant Sequoia outside of California. When last measured in 2012, it was 36.2 feet (11.04 meters) in girth.

If you didn't know Giant Sequoia grew in the PNW (and their cousins the coast redwood), they are planted in almost every city in the region.

Here's the link to this particular tree's profile at monumentaltrees.com: https://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/usa/washington/piercecounty/4830_jeffersonpark/

#tacoma #seattle #washington #trees #nature #sequoia #pnw

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I'm not removing this because big ol trees make me happy and it doesn't break our commandments. From this day forward posts about non-cannabis trees will be allowed.
Shrubs on the other hand are bullshit, if you post a shrub you're getting a 3 day ban minimum.
- Ni!
- It always made me smile when someone posted an actual tree to r/trees. I'm glad this joke made it over to Lemmy, and I'm glad you're still cool with the accidental oak or maple showing up here.
  (Fuck them shrubs, though.)
  
  Why not one step further and give c/trees back to the tree people? It always was a Reddit joke. Maybe Lemmy needs a new one?

Lol, um, you know this sub isn't about those kind of trees 😅
- Didn't even notice til I saw your comment 😆
  OP seems to have confused this place with marijuana_enthusiasts!
- Does Lemmy have its own r/MarijuanaEnthusiasts sub equivalent?

Largest in the US? We have tons here in the UK imported by nobility hundreds of years ago that look bigger than this.
- Largest giant sequoia outside of California, measured by diameter at breast height. It's in the title of the post you're commenting on. It has a girth of 36.2 ft.
  The UK does have some chonky trees, tbf. Current girth champion appears to be the Marton oak with a girth of 47 ft. Historical champion was the Cowthorpe oak at 59 ft circumference.
  In comparison, General Sherman has a girth of 102.6 ft, and there are many more sequioas in California of comparable size and even greater circumference.
  
  That still doesn’t tell us if that’s the rest of the world, or just the USA.
  Largest giant sequoia outside of California, measured by diameter at breast height. It's in the title of the post you're commenting on. It has a girth of 36.2 ft.

TIL trees have breasts…?

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