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
Centurion (tree) Centurion (tree) The Centurion is the world's tallest known individual "Eucalyptus regnans" tree and the worlds second tallest tree, thus making "E. regnans" the second-tallest tree species in the world after the coast redwood. The tree is located in southern Tasmania, Australia and was measured by climber-deployed tapeline at tall in 2008. A more recent measurement in January 2014 showed the tree had grown to 99.82m Centurion was re-measured again in Decmember 2018 and was found to have reached 100.5 meters in height. It was discovered in August 2008 by employees of Forestry Tasmania while analysing the data collected by