The Adam Tree is a
giant sequoia located in
Mountain Home Grove, a sequoia
grove
Grove may refer to:
* Grove (nature), a small group of trees
Places
England
*Grove, Buckinghamshire, a village
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* Grove, Herefordshire
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* Grove, Nottinghamshire, a village
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in
Giant Sequoia National Monument in the
Sierra Nevada
The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily ...
of
California
California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the ...
. It is the
21st largest giant sequoia in the world, and could be considered the 20th largest depending on how badly
Ishi Giant atrophied during the
Rough Fire
The Rough Fire was a wildfire of the 2015 California season. It burned of land, a season record, and was extinguished by 3,742 firefighters.
Progression
The fire, caused by a lightning strike on July 31, approximately North of Hume Lake, bu ...
in 2015.
Description
The Adam tree was named around 1884 by Jesse Hoskins, who was also responsible for the room cut out of the Hercules tree, which is also in the Mountain Home Grove. Wendell Flint and Mike Law measured the Adam tree in 1978 and calculated a volume of , with a girth of .
It was considered the largest tree in the grove until 1985, when Flint, with the help of photographer Mike Law, measured and named the nearby
Genesis tree and demonstrated that it was larger.
Three trees in the grove - the Genesis, Summit Road and Euclid trees - are presently considered to be larger than the Adam tree.
Dimensions
The dimensions of the Adam Tree as measured by Wendell D. Flint. The calculated volume ignores burns.
See also
*
List of largest giant sequoias
*
List of individual trees
The following is a list of notable trees. Trees listed here are regarded as important or specific by their historical, national, locational, natural or mythological context. The list includes actual trees located throughout the world, as well as ...
*
Mountain Home Grove
References
Further reading
*
Individual giant sequoia trees
Giant Sequoia National Monument
Natural history of Tulare County, California
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