It has a name, the President, bestowed about 90 years ago by admiring humans. It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron giganteum, one of several surviving species of redwoods.

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 ...

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 ...