It is difficult today to surprise a person with tall towers and buildings. Huge buildings can be found anywhere in the world. Another thing is that nature gives us, admirable and surprising. Giant trees fascinate with their uniqueness at first sight. Being at such natural wonders, you feel like a dwarf. This is another proof of the greatness and beauty of nature.
The article provides information about the largest tree in Russia.
Briefly about the largest trees in the world
The exact place of growth of the largest trees in the world is kept secret, and in this regard, photographs are almost impossible to find. The information is classified so that the flow of tourists cannot destroy the infrastructure and prevent these trees from growing further. Before we go on to describe the largest tree in Russia, we will briefly introduce the largest plants of the whole world.
The largest trees in the world:
- Mendosino sequoia tree (height - 112.2 m, diameter - 4.19 m), growing in the USA.
- Sequoia Paradox (diameter - 3.9 m, height - 112.6 m).
- Sequoia Rockefeller (height - 112.6 m, exact diameter unknown).
- Sequoia Lauralin (112.6 m - height, diameter - 4.5 m).
- Sequoia Orion (112.6 m - height, diameter - 4.3 m).
- Sequoia National Geographic Society (112.7 m - height, diameter - 4.4 m).
- Sequoia Giant Stratosphere (diameter - 5.2 m, height - 113.11 m).
- Sequoia Icarus (diameter - 3.8 m, height - 113.1 m).
- Sequoia Helios (diameter - almost 5 m with a height of 114.6 m);
- Sequoia Hyperion is the tallest tree in the world (height - 115.61 m, age - about 800 years).
As you can see, all the highest places of honor belong to the sequoia, growing in the United States. But if you exclude it from the list of champions, the championship can go to deciduous trees. For example, in Tasmania, the largest tree grows - the royal eucalyptus Tsentrion (height - 101 meters), which refers to deciduous plants.
What is the largest tree in Russia?
Fir can be called one of the most common and largest species of trees in Russia, belonging to the pine family. You can meet her in the territories from Primorye to Kaliningrad. It can be found together with other coniferous trees, a little less often it grows in deciduous forests. They grow in pure fir plantations.
The tree grows up to 60 meters in height with average values of about 30-50 meters. Approximately 150-200 years is the life expectancy depending on the place of growth. For the most part, firs growing in the Krasnodar Territory reach a height of up to 80 meters with a trunk diameter of about 2 meters in the lower part.
The name of the largest tree in Russia from the pine family is Nordman fir (Caucasian). This species of trees lives much longer than other relatives, and their age can reach from 500 to 700 years.
Nordman fir has a beautiful crown in the form of a pyramid. Her needles are shiny with a dark green color, and below with white stripes. It got its name in honor of Alexander von Nordman (professor), who headed the Odessa Botanical Garden at the end of the 19th century. It should be noted that fir is the most popular tree in Europe during the Christmas period.
A more detailed description of fir
The largest tree in Russia (photo presented in the article) is a rather powerful plant. Its height (from 80 to 100 meters) is equal to the height of a 30-storey building. It features a rather thick crown of dark green color, growing from the very bottom of the trunk. The powerful stem root of the plant goes far and deep into the ground. It is not within the strength to tumble down such a tree even to the most powerful wind.
The young bark of the tree is smooth and has a gray color, but with age it significantly thickens and becomes covered with deep cracks. On the cortex there are many convex tubercles and passages in which resin accumulates. The flat and narrow needles are soft and not prickly to the touch, and they live, without falling even after the branches have dried, for about 10-15 years.
At first, the tree grows slowly, only at 12-14 years of life, its growth rate begins to grow. A long-lived tree lives on average about 400 years, but there are also instances that live up to 700 years.
Forests of fir are called fir trees. They are always damp and dark, but among these trees at their very roots grow grass and lingonberries. You can meet aspen, oaks, maples and beeches in the fir tree.
Fir Spread
The largest tree in Russia is quite widely used in agriculture and in medicine. Fir is an evergreen coniferous plant distributed throughout the entire northern hemisphere of the planet (northern part of Eurasia). This tree is found even in the polar regions, at the lower reaches of the Yenisei. In Russia, 10 species of tree grow. Rich in this coniferous vegetation and East Asia (mostly Japan).
Some of the species are found in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Algerian fir grows in North Africa.
Today, about 47 species of fir are known: Caucasian, Siberian, Korean, white, balsamic, solid, Sakhalin, Himalayan, etc.
