Comments on: World’s Tallest Hardwood Tree Found in Australia http://www.natural-environment.com/blog/2008/10/10/worlds-tallest-hardwood-tree-found-in-australia/ Blogging for the Natural Environment Sun, 14 Mar 2010 09:23:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: waitew http://www.natural-environment.com/blog/2008/10/10/worlds-tallest-hardwood-tree-found-in-australia/comment-page-1/#comment-4677 waitew Sat, 03 Oct 2009 08:46:46 +0000 http://www.natural-environment.com/blog/?p=234#comment-4677 450 foot,500 foot tall trees..complete rubbish. Nation Geographic/ the laws of physics have proved that ANY tree can't grow above a height of about 400 feet (123 meters). The mechanism trees use to pull water from the ground up into their canopy simply doesn't work above that height. The species of tree that most commonly 'reaches' or approaches that height limit is the coast redwood.Period! Other trees can also (coastal douglas fir,Stika spruce,eucaliptus etc.) but the one that most commonly does is sequoia semperviren (coast redwood). No tree species has been more affected by logging than the coast redwood 98/99% old growth gone! assuming the remaining 1 to 2% are representative of the what was before logging,then based upon 100 meter plus trees know to exist in the world today, it seems obvious Sequoia Semperviren IS the tallest tree in the world. 450 foot,500 foot tall trees..complete rubbish. Nation Geographic/ the laws of physics have proved that ANY tree can’t grow above a height of about 400 feet (123 meters). The mechanism trees use to pull water from the ground up into their canopy simply doesn’t work above that height. The species of tree that most commonly ‘reaches’ or approaches that height limit is the coast redwood.Period! Other trees can also (coastal douglas fir,Stika spruce,eucaliptus etc.) but the one that most commonly does is sequoia semperviren (coast redwood).
No tree species has been more affected by logging than the coast redwood 98/99% old growth gone! assuming the remaining 1 to 2% are representative of the what was before logging,then based upon 100 meter plus trees know to exist in the world today, it seems obvious Sequoia Semperviren IS the tallest tree in the world.

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