giant sequoia: see sequoia sequoia , name for the redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and for the big tree, or giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), both huge, coniferous evergreen trees of the bald cypress family, and for extinct related species.
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or giant sequoia or Sierra redwood

Coniferous evergreen (Sequoiadendron giganteum; see conifer) found in scattered groves on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada range of California, U.S. The largest of all trees in bulk, the big tree is distinguished from the coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) by having uniformly scalelike, or awl-shaped, leaves that lie close against the branches, scaleless winter buds, and cones requiring two seasons to mature. The pyramidal tree shape, reddish brown furrowed bark, and drooping branches are common to both genera. The largest specimen (in total bulk) is the General Sherman tree in Sequoia National Park—101.5 ft (31 m) in circumference at its base, 272.4 ft (83 m) tall, and weighing an estimated 6,167 tons (5,593 metric tons). Because big-tree lumber is more brittle than redwood lumber and thus less desirable, the big tree has been easier to preserve; though some groves have been cut, most of the 70 remaining groves are now protected by state or national forests or parks.

Giant Sequoia

(Sequoiadendron giganteum), also big tree, a coniferous evergreen of the family Taxodiaceae. The giant sequoia reaches heights greater than 100 m and lives up to 1,500 years (according to other data, up to 3,000 or 4,000 years). The straight, well-shaped trunk measures as much as 10 m in diameter. In old trees the lower part of the trunk is branchless. The dense crown is conical and rounded. The bark is brown in mature trees and reddish in young trees. The leaves (needles) are gray-green, spirally arranged, narrowly lanceolate, and concave above. The ovate, woody cones, which develop at the tips of the lateral shoots, are 5–7.5 cm long and 3–4.5 cm wide. Initially green, they turn brown when the seeds mature. The cones mature in the second year, remaining on the tree after the seeds fall out. The seeds are flat and have a membranous wing.

The giant sequoia grows in California, at elevations of 1,450–2,500 m on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada. The largest natural groves of the trees have been designated as preserves. Some of the tallest trees have been given their own names.

The sequoia tree is ornamental and has been cultivated in parks and gardens of Southern and Central Europe. In the USSR it is raised in the southern Crimea, Middle Asia, the Caucasus, and Transcarpathia.

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Derev’ia i kustarniki SSSR, vol. 1. Moscow-Leningrad, 1949.
Kammeyer, H. F. Mammulbäume. Ziemsen, 1960. (Die neue Brehm-Bücherei, fasc. 256.)

V. N. GLADKOVA

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No references found	That is partly because it grows in a forest of giant sequoias with a number of them indistinguishable in size by the eyeball method. A day in the life of General Sherman: our intrepid reporter gets up ... by Bronaugh, Whit / American Forests The towering giant sequoias stood their ground as 1,000 firefighters - including crews from Los Angeles County and Los Padres National Forest in Ventura County - fought to save the lofty redwoods, whose only home is in the western Sierra Nevada. FLAMES THREATEN TOWERING SEQUOIAS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) In My First Summer in the Sierra, he writes that soon after the first giant sequoias were "discovered" by whites in 1852, in California's Calaveras Grove (now Calaveras State Park), "One of the grandest trees was cut down for the sake of a stump Saving the Sequoias by Reese, April / E	Giannini, Amadeo P. Giannis Zebgos Giannotti, Donato giant giant arbor vitae giant branch Giant City State Park giant clam Giant Despair giant granite Giant Kidney Worm Giant Lantern Festival giant magnetoresistance giant nuclear resonance Giant nuclear resonances giant order giant orders giant pilaster giant planets giant powder giant pulse laser Giant Salamander Giant Schnauzer Giant Sequoia Giant Sequoia National Monument Giant Sequoias Giant Springs State Park giant star Giant Stars Giant Tortoises Giant White Rabbit giant's cauldron Giant's Causeway giant's kettle giant-cell arteritis Giantism Giants Giants in the Earth Giap, Vo Nguyen Giaque's temperature scale Giaque-Debye method Giard, Alfred Mathieu Giardia Giardia lamblia giardiasis Giatsintova, Sofia Giatsintova, Sofia Vladimirovna Giauque, William Giauque, William Francis Giaur-Kala Giaurov, Nikolai	Giant salamanders Giant Scalable Image Viewer Giant Scale Aerobatic List giant scallop giant schizonts giant schizonts giant schizonts giant schizonts giant schnauzer giant schnauzer giant schnauzer giant schnauzer giant scrambling fern Giant Screen Cinema Association Giant Screen Theater Association giant sea perch giant sea perch giant sea perch giant sea perch giant seaperch Giant Segmented Mirror Telescope Giant sensitive plant Giant sensitive plant Giant sensitive plant Giant sensitive plant Giant Sequia giant sequoia giant sequoia Giant Sequoia National Monument Giant Sequoia National Monument Giant Sequoias Giant Sets giant silk moth giant silk moths giant silkworm giant silkworm moth giant silkworm moth giant slalom giant slalom Giant slalom skiing giant slaloms Giant sloth Giant sloth Giant South American river turtle Giant South American river turtle Giant spider Giant Springs State Park giant squid giant squid giant squids giant star giant star giant star grass giant star grass giant star grass giant star grass Giant stars Giant stars giant stock bean Giant stork giant sunflower

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That is partly because it grows in a forest of giant sequoias with a number of them indistinguishable in size by the eyeball method.

A day in the life of General Sherman: our intrepid reporter gets up ... by Bronaugh, Whit / American Forests

The towering giant sequoias stood their ground as 1,000 firefighters - including crews from Los Angeles County and Los Padres National Forest in Ventura County - fought to save the lofty redwoods, whose only home is in the western Sierra Nevada.

FLAMES THREATEN TOWERING SEQUOIAS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

In My First Summer in the Sierra, he writes that soon after the first giant sequoias were "discovered" by whites in 1852, in California's Calaveras Grove (now Calaveras State Park), "One of the grandest trees was cut down for the sake of a stump

Saving the Sequoias by Reese, April / E

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