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
Redwood Tree (song) Northern Ireland, where Morrison grew up, as Brian Hinton remarks: When released as a single it was not as successful as "Rolling Stone" reviewer Steven Holden had anticipated: "The affirmation of "Saint Dominic's Preview" is translated to the past in 'Redwood Tree', an ecstatic boyhood reminiscence centering on the image of a sheltering redwood tree. This beautiful, sensuous cut has the album's greatest potential as a hit single." It was released as a single but only charted at number 98 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, which made it less of a success than the album's lead single "Jackie Wilson Said