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The Floyd Otter Tree is a
giant sequoia ''Sequoiadendron giganteum'' (also known as the giant sequoia, giant redwood, Sierra redwood or Wellingtonia) is a species of coniferous tree, classified in the family Cupressaceae in the subfamily Sequoioideae. Giant sequoia specimens are the la ...
located in
Garfield Grove Garfield Grove is a Giant Sequoia grove. The entire lies in Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada range in eastern California in the United States The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or Americ ...
, which is itself located near the town of Three Rivers,
California California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
. The tree was named after former Mountain Home Demonstration State Forest manager Floyd L. Otter. The tree is the twelfth largest giant sequoia in the world. It was severely burned in the
Castle Fire The SQF Complex fire—also called the SQF Lightning Complex—was a wildfire complex that burned in Tulare County in Central California in 2020. Comprising the Castle and Shotgun fires, it affected Sequoia National Forest and adjacent areas. B ...
in 2020 and may be moribund.


History

In fall 1978, Naturalists Gus Boik, Wendell D. Flint, and Robert Walker discovered the two large giant sequoia trees (Eric De Groot Tree and Floyd Otter Tree) just upslope from the King Arthur Tree. However, the group did not have time to name or measure the two trees after measuring King Arthur. In 1993, Flint again mentioned the existence of an unnamed, roughly 25-foot (7.62 meter) diameter giant sequoia just upslope from the King Arthur Tree that he wasn't able to formally measure or name. In 2001, naturalists James Chelebda, Arthur P. Cowley, Lawrence L. Otter (son of Floyd L. Otter), and Michael Reed were able to locate, measure, and name the Floyd Otter Tree while surveying Garfield Grove for the
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. Their measurements were later published in December 2012, along with a definitive list of the 30 largest known giant sequoias and their respective measurements.


Dimensions


See also

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List of largest giant sequoias The giant sequoia (''Sequoiadendron giganteum'') is the world's most massive tree, and arguably the largest living organism on Earth. It is neither the tallest extant species of tree (that distinction belongs to the coast redwood), nor is it the ...
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List of individual trees The following is a list of individual 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 we ...


References

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