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The Lindsey Creek Tree was the largest single-stem organism (tree) known to have existed historically. It was a coast redwood (also known as California redwood), a member of the species ''
Sequoia sempervirens ''Sequoia sempervirens'' ()''Sunset Western Garden Book,'' 1995:606–607 is the sole living species of the genus '' Sequoia'' in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated in Taxodiaceae). Common names include coast redwood, coastal ...
''. It grew in
Fieldbrook, California Fieldbrook (formerly Bokman's Prairie and Buckman's Prairie) is a census-designated place in Humboldt County, California. It is located north-northeast of Arcata, at an elevation of . The population was 860 following the 2010 census. Geography ...
, along the Lindsey Creek, which feeds into the Mad River.''Latest Tree News'', Michael Taylor
/ref> There are no known photographs of the tree. When it was uprooted and felled by a storm in 1905, its mass and dimensions were estimated, with a weight of at least 3,630
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, 3.3 million
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, or 7.26 million pounds and trunk
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of at least 2,550 cubic meters (90,000 cubic feet).''The Most Massive Tree'', Zilkha Biomass Energy
/ref> If these estimates were correct, this would have made it close to twice the size (in volume) of the largest living single-stem tree, the
giant sequoia ''Sequoiadendron giganteum'' (giant sequoia; also known as giant redwood, Sierra redwood, Sierran redwood, California big tree, Wellingtonia or simply big treea nickname also used by John Muir) is the sole living species in the genus ''Sequoiade ...
known as
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; nearly triple that of the largest living coast redwood,
Grogan's Fault ''Sequoia sempervirens'' ()''Sunset Western Garden Book,'' 1995:606–607 is the sole living species of the genus '' Sequoia'' in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated in Taxodiaceae). Common names include coast redwood, coastal ...
, and having a trunk volume five times larger than the tallest of its species existing today, the Hyperion, only ten feet shorter at 380.1 feet.


Johnson claims

Skip Johnson, a Fieldbrook logger interviewed in 1971, testified that he witnessed the Lindsey Creek Tree after it had fallen. He reported it as the tallest tree in Fieldbrook. He stated that a family member measured its diameter at at off the ground, and at off the ground, and its total height slightly exceeded . Fairly solid evidence indicates that coast redwoods were the world's largest trees before logging, with numerous historical specimens reportedly over . Hyperion, another coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), currently the tallest, is , which also makes it the world's tallest known living tree.


See also

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List of superlative trees The world's superlative trees can be ranked by any factor. Records have been kept for trees with superlative height, trunk diameter or girth, canopy coverage, airspace volume, wood volume, estimated mass, and age. Tallest The heights of th ...
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List of individual trees The following is a list of notable trees. Trees listed here are regarded as important or specific by their historical, national, locational, natural or mythological context. The list includes actual trees located throughout the world, as well as ...


References


Further reading

*Walter Fry and John Roberts White. ''Big Trees.'' Stanford, Calif.,
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; London, Humphrey Milford,
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; First Printing, 1930, xvi, 126 pp.; ill.; 22.2 cm. x 14.4 cm. * Donald Culross Peattie. ''A Natural History of Western Trees.'' Boston,
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Company, 1950. .


External links


''Interesting Tree Facts'', United Nations Environment Programme
{{coord missing, California History of Humboldt County, California Individual coast redwood trees 1900s individual tree deaths Individual trees in California