Franklin (tree) Sierra Nevada of California. Four out of the ten largest trees by volume on the planet are said to be within the Giant Forest. The largest, the General Sherman tree, measures across the base. Franklin (tree) Franklin is a giant sequoia in Giant Forest, a sequoia grove where the largest tree in the world lives - the General Sherman. The Franklin tree is the eighth largest giant sequoia in the world. It was named by Wendell Flint after Benjamin Franklin. Nearby trees include the Washington Tree which was once the second largest tree in the world, but since it lost
Big Tree in Chirinda Forest Big Tree in Chirinda Forest Big Tree (or The Big Tree in Chirinda Forest) is the tallest native or indigenous tree in Zimbabwe, and a declared National Monument. The tree is 65 m tall and measures 4.5 m in diameter, while its age is estimated at 1,000 years or over. This impressive tree is growing in the centre of the Chirinda Forest (formerly known as Selinda, from the Mount Selinda Mission School of the same name) in the south east of Zimbabwe at the southernmost part of the country's Eastern Highlands. Big tree is a "Khaya anthotheca" or Nyasa redwood