EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Sequoia sempervirens, the redwood of California and Oregon (USA), includes the tallest living tree in the world (tallest cited as ca.

Detailed explanation-2: -The iconic giant sequoias grow interspersed with other trees in a mixed-conifer forest. These include white fir, sugar pine, incense-cedar, red fir, and ponderosa pine. While giant sequoias dominate in terms of size and volume, they are outnumbered by other types of trees.

Detailed explanation-3: -Decaisne, the French botanist, recognized that the new species belonged to the same genus as the redwood and renamed the tree Sequoia gigantea. The tree has been popularly known as Big Tree, sequoia, Sierra redwood, and giant sequoia.

Detailed explanation-4: -Anatomy. The Sequoia trees will have a red bark (Trunk) as the name suggests “Redwoods”! Their leaves are needle like and these trees are conifers. Moreover, the Giant Sequoias are evergreen i.e., they bear their needles all the year long.

Detailed explanation-5: -The giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) is the world’s largest tree. It grows naturally only in a narrow 60-mile band of mixed conifer forest on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California.