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Show Sequoia Trees Of the Sequoia trees there are two species, the redwood and the Big-Tree (Giant Sequoia). The redwood red-wood will reproduce itself from the stump, and has been known to grow to a height of 80 feet and a diameter of 16 inches in 30 years. The wood contains no pitch and much water, and in a green condition con-dition will not burn. Thus while surrounding forests may be destroyed de-stroyed by forest fires, the redwoods red-woods remain unscathed. The Giant Sequoia grow to greater great-er height and diameter than the redwood. One tree is 325 feet tall, and measures 35.7 feet four feet above the ground. Many of the trees are estimated to be 2,500 years old, trees which were already growing while the Egyptians were building the Pyramids. |