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
Hart (tree) Hart (tree) The Hart tree is a named Giant sequoia ("Sequoiadendron giganteum") tree within the Redwood Mountain Grove, in the Sierra Nevada and Fresno County, California. The Redwood Mountain Grove is protected within Kings Canyon National Park and the Giant Sequoia National Monument. It was once claimed to be the fourth largest Giant sequoia in the world, but is now considered the 24th largest. Its has a volume of around . The nearby Roosevelt tree is the largest tree in the grove, with a volume of over . The tree was named for Michael Hart, who discovered it sometime around