Record-holder trees shake imagination, and it is unsurprising: height, a grasp, weight of some copies of these representatives of flora are simply incomparable to similar parameters of usual trees.
Instruction
1. The highest tree is a huge sequoia, or mamontovo a tree. These fossil trees grew before Ice Age, and today meet only in North America in extremely limited quantity. The cause is large-scale logging. Mamontovo the tree is valuable what does not decay at all, and it nearly ruined it. Today the sequoia is on the verge of disappearance and is protected by the law. It is possible to see these giants in national parks of the United States of America – "Sequoia" and Redvuda. The highest sequoia has height of hundred thirteen meters with a diameter of eleven meters today. In a hollow of such tree the whole dance pavilion or the tennis court can be placed that it is quite heavy to imagine. Huge sequoia, as well as many large trees, real long-liver. The age of some copies exceeds three thousand years, but the most part of the mamontovy trees which reached our days, did not surpass this boundary yet.
2. Despite the sequoia sizes, in thickness of the trunk she is not a competitor to the thickest trees of the world. Some of them are baobabs and the Sicilian chestnut hundreds of horses, but the largest copies which volume exceeded fifty meters did not reach our days. They were or are destroyed, or as the well-known chestnut, broke up to several trunks. The thickest tree which reached our days it is the Mexican cypress, the well-known tree to Tula. On a legend, this tree struck still Cortés, one of the Spanish conquistadors. Diameter of this giant – forty two meters, and age more than one thousand years. It is considered that the tree to Tula was planted by one of priests as the tree grows on the sacred earth of Indians. However, subsequently this territory began to belong to Catholic church.
3. The champion among the easiest trees is a balsa, wood cubic meter which weighs only hundred twenty grams. It seven times easier usual wood, is nine times easier than water and it is even twice easier than a stopper. Did the boats of this tree still Inca who estimated rare properties of balsa. Now it can be found only in the most hard-to-reach spots of the tropical jungle.
4. As opposed to balsa, wood of a so-called stone tree is so heavy that it sinks in water, from here and its name. To process this wood extremely hard, but it is worth it: do various decorative hand-made articles of extraordinary beauty of a stone tree.