General Sherman (tree) General Sherman (tree) General Sherman is a giant sequoia ("Sequoiadendron giganteum") tree located in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park in Tulare County, in the U.S. state of California. By volume, it is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth. While the General Sherman is the largest currently living tree, it is not the largest historically-recorded tree. The Crannell Creek Giant, a coast redwood ("Sequoia sempervirens") near Trinidad, California, is estimated to have been 15 to 25% larger than the General Sherman tree by volume. That tree was cut down in the mid-1940s. Another larger coast redwood, near
Adam (tree) Flint, with the help of photographer Mike Law, measured and named the nearby Genesis tree and demonstrated that it was larger. Three trees in the grove - the Genesis, Summit Road and Euclid trees - are presently considered to be larger than the Adam tree. The dimensions of the Adam Tree as measured by Wendell D. Flint. The calculated volume ignores burns. Adam (tree) The Adam Tree is the 20th largest giant sequoia in the world. It is located in Mountain Home Grove, a sequoia grove in Giant Sequoia National Monument in the Sierra Nevada of California. The Adam tree