It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron giganteum, one of several surviving species of redwoods. The living crown (this one atop the General Sherman, at center) was once a distant mystery.

The great giants we associate with redwoods belong to the other two species: the giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) and coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), both of which can top 300 feet ...

and weighs an estimated 6,500 tons (5,900 metric tons), which is equivalent to 40 blue whales or three times the world's largest single-stem tree — California's General Sherman giant sequoia ...

Conservators applied solvent gel to the giant sequoia to draw the old varnish out The team then applied a special solvent gel to the surface that is on display. Chelsea explains, 'The solvent ...

The Sequoiadendron giganteum once stood on a pig farm but ... in in 1987 - and say despite its size they love the tree. The giant sequoia has a preservation order and sits just metres away from ...