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
The Giant Plane The Giant Plane The Giant is a London plane tree, located in the city Chojna, Poland. It is one of the thickest trees in the country. The name of the tree in Polish – "Olbrzym" – means a very large, huge thing (even a person). "The Giant" is about 300 years old, according to the dendrochronological research, and once stood in the "Viereck'scher Garten". It is a monumental, 35 m tall tree with a trunk circumference of 1066 cm (in 2014, at the narrowest place, 0.45 m high). Its circumference at breast height (CBH) is 11 m (in 2015). This