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Despite knowledge of field biology and media of the XXI century, some species of animals or trees often continue to produce the same wonder that people in past centuries. The complexity of the plant world is even more fascinating when the examples put forward beyond the usual or ordinary.
There are hundreds or thousands of copies, and as many species of trees in the world who have certain special features due to local conditions (climate, altitude, temperature, soil, etc.).
General Sherman is a sequoia tree in Sequoia National Park, California, but not just any but the most respected of all. Is about 2200 years old, 83.8 meters high, over 52, 500 cubic meters timber and over 6000 tons. Far from being tired out, General Sherman continues to grow with each year surpassing himself. Another fascinating copy of the same species is called the General Grant and is found in King's Canyon National Park.
Challenge the two giants is won each to another chapter, the latter having a circumference greater than about 1 m (32.77 m) than Shern. Wondering which is the height limit to who can grow a sequoia tree? We can not say with certainty, we know only the highest currently is considered Hyperion, a tree in Redwood National Park, measuring 115 m, or about how a building with 30 floors.
Throughout the Americas but further south, in the Mexican city of Oaxaca, another freak of nature is taking place among the other representatives of the flora. El Arbol del Tule is a copy of mucronatum Taxodium species, unusual in size trunk. Its circumference measures 58 m and 11.3 m diamtrul, for which locals say with humor that not man hugs tree but rather he man. Hypothesis that would be about three trees "paste" was disproved by experts.
Madagascar baobab is considered the homeland, the place to spread in Africa and even Australia. This species may be confused due to poor form trunk and canopy, less branched. Each baobab is a real water tank, being able to store reserves in trunk up to 120,000 liters of water.
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