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The world's superlative trees can be ranked by any factor. Records have been kept for trees with superlative height, trunk diameter (girth), canopy coverage, airspace volume, wood volume, estimated mass, and age.
| Tree name | Species | Height | Country | Location | References and notes | |
| Meters | Feet | |||||
| Hyperion | Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) | 116.07 | 380.8 | United States | Redwood National Park, California | It reached 116.07 metres (380.8 ft) in 2019; second and third tallest when Hyperion was found, were Helios 114.7 metres (376 ft) and Icarus 113.1 metres (371 ft) tall (in 2006). |
| South Tibetan cypress (Cupressus austrotibetica) | 102.3 | 336 | China | Yarlung Zangbo National Nature Reserve, Tibet | ||
| Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) | 100.2 | 329 | United States | Redwood National Park, California | ||
| Coast Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii) | 99.5 | 326.4 | United States | Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon | ||
| Menara | Yellow meranti (Shorea faguetiana) | 97.58 | 320.1 | Malaysia | Danum Valley Conservation Area, Sabah | The original quoted figure of 100.8m was from the top leaves to the bottom of the buttresses on the low side of ground. The correct height of the tree is 97.58m – that is the average between the distance to the lowest part of bole and the distance to the highest part of bole |
| Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) | 96.37 | 316.2 | United States | Sequoia National Park, California | ||
| Centurion | Mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) | 96 | 315 | Australia | Arve Valley, Tasmania | Tree had reached 100.5 m in 2018, but lost 4 meters of height by 2025 due to the 2019 fire damage and now ranks 7th as tallest living tree species. |
| Neeminah Loggerale Meena, or Mother and Daughter | Southern blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) | 90.7 | 298 | Australia | Evercreech Forest Reserve, Tasmania | The crown of this tree is dying back. |
| Dinizia excelsa | 88.5 | 290 | Brazil | Near the boundary of Amapá and Pará | ||
| Tree name | Species | Height | Country | Location | References and notes | |
| Meters | Feet | |||||
| G Klein Tree | Mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) | 147.218 | 483.00 | Australia | At the Black Spur, Victoria | Note: Fallen in 1865 and measured by Mr. Gustav Klein at 483 feet in length, and 10 feet diameter 16 feet above ground. |
| Nooksack Giant | Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) | 141.732 | 465.00 | United States | Alpenglow Farm, Washington | Note: Cut down in 1897. Measured using a tape by lumbermen |
| Ferguson Tree | Mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) | 132.588 | 435.00 | Australia | Near the Watts River, Victoria | Note: Fallen in 1872, and measured on the ground by a Government Forester with a tape line. Reportedly missing part of the top |
| Eel River Giant | Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) | 130.15 | 427.0 | United States | Englewood, Redcrest California | Note: Cut down on Feb 14, 1893, and measured on the ground by lumbermen |
| Nehalem Giant | Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) | 129.54 | 425.0 | United States | Nehalem River, near Jewell, Oregon | Note: Cut down in February 1886 and reportedly measured on the ground by property owner at 405 feet in length from "butt to uppermost bough." Later vouched for in 1931 by a local witness who recalled it measured 425 feet from "roots to uppermost bough." It retained a 14 feet diameter over 100 ft high. |
| Lynn Valley Tree | Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) | 126.5 | 415 | Canada | Lynn Valley, British Columbia | Note: Cut down in 1902 and measured on the ground by property owner. |
| Yarragon Tree | Mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) | 124.968 | 410.00 | Australia | South Yarragon Ranges, Victoria | Note: Felled c. 1889 and measured on the ground by a settler of the district at 410 feet in length. Reportedly part of tree was burnt off. |
| Mineral Tree | Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) | 119.786 | 393.00 | United States | Mineral, Washington | Note: Progressively lost height until falling in a storm in 1930. Standing portion and fallen top measured by lumbermen, a civil engineer, and at least one Govt. Forester between years 1905 and 1930. One of the oldest Douglas fir on record at 1,020 years in age |
| Eureka Tree | Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) | 115.824 | 380.00 | United States | Eureka, California | Note: Standing height surveyed, and tree then cut down in 1914 and measured by lumbermen. |
| Nisqually Tree | Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) | 115.824 | 380.00 | United States | Ashford, Washington | Note: Measured as a fallen tree near the Nisqually river by a US Forest Service Ranger and his crew in the year 1900 with steel tape. A small portion of the tree's top was missing. |
| Thorpdale Tree | Mountain ash (Eucalyptus regnans) | 114.3 | 375 | Australia | Thorpdale, Victoria | Note: Standing height measured at 112.8 metres (370 feet) by theodolite in 1880 by a surveyor. The tree was later felled in 1881, remeasured on the ground by chain at 114.3 metres (375 feet) in length by same surveyor. |
| Klinki (Araucaria hunsteinii) | 89.0 | 292.0 | Papua New Guinea | Note: all the references to this species are historical accounts – there is no currently known living klinki of this height. | ||
| White Knight | Manna gum (Eucalyptus viminalis) | 88.9 | 292 | Australia | Fingal, Tasmania | This tree has died, the likely cause being more frequent heatwaves and reduced rainfall. |
| Species | Diameter | Tree name | Location | Notes and References | |
| Meters | Feet | ||||
| Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum) | 11.62 | 38.1 | Árbol del Tule | Santa Maria del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico | This diameter includes buttressing. A more accurate mean diameter for this tree is 9.38 m (30.8 ft). |
| Baobab (Adansonia digitata): | 10.64 | 34.9 | Sunland Baobab | Sunland Farm, Limpopo, South Africa | Renowned because a bar and wine cellar operated inside its hollow trunk, until it split in 2017. |
| White or Strangler Fig (Ficus virens): | 9.77 | 32.1 | The Temple Fig | Murwillimbah, NSW, Australia | |
| Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla): | 9.23 | 30.3 | The Bellingen Fig | Bellingen, NSW, Australia | |
| Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) | 8.90 | 29.2 | Jupiter | Redwood National Park, California, United States | |
| Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) | 8.85 | 29.0 | General Grant | General Grant Grove, California, United States | A hollow, nameless Giant Sequoia along the Paradise Trail of the Atwell Mills Grove in Sequoia National Park, has a basal diameter (not girth) of 57 feet (17 meters). |
| Za (Adansonia za) | 8.85 | 29.0 | The Ampanihy Baobab | North of Morombe, southwest Madagascar | |
| Chinese camphor tree (Cinnamomum camphora) | 8.23 | 27.0 | Kamō no Ōkusu | Kamō, Kagoshima, Japan | |
| Eucalyptus jacksonii | 7.96 | 26.1 | Hollow trunk | Walpole, West Australia, Australia | |
| Species | Trunk volume | Tree name | Location | Country | References and notes | |
| Cubic Meters | Cubic Feet | |||||
| Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) | 1,487 | 52,500 | General Sherman Tree | Sequoia National Park | United States | |
| Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) | 1,084.5 | 38,300 | Grogan's Fault | Redwood National Park | United States | |
| Kauri (Agathis australis) | 516 | 18,200 | Tāne Mahuta | Waipoua Forest | New Zealand | The 516 cubic meter figure includes 255m³ for the main trunk and 261m³ for branches |
| Western red cedar (Thuja plicata) | 449 | 15,900 | Cheewhat Giant | Pacific Rim National Park Reserve | Canada | |
| Eucalyptus regnans | 390 | 14,000 | Two Towers | Tasmania | Australia | The 390m³ figure includes 358m³ for trunks and 32m³ for branches.[citation needed] |
| Tasmanian blue gum (Eucalyptus globulus) | 368 | 13,000 | Rullah Longatyle | Tasmania | Australia | Rullah Longatyle was killed during Tasmanian bushfires in February 2019. |
| Coast Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) | 349 | 12,300 | Red Creek Fir | San Juan Valley | Canada | Some trees in Washington State, USA have higher tree scores and may have higher volumes. |
| Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) | 337 | 11,900 | Queets Spruce | Olympic National Park | United States | |
| Eucalyptus obliqua | 337 | 11,900 | Gothmog | Styx Valley | Australia | The 337m³ figure includes 296m³ for trunks and 41m³ for branches. |
| Eucalyptus delegatensis | 286 | 10,100 | Styx Valley | Australia | This tree was destroyed in the 2019 bushfires. | |
| Species | Diameter | Tree name | Location | Notes and References | |
| Meters | Feet | ||||
| Banyan (Ficus benghalensis) | 180 | 591 | Thimmamma Marrimanu | Anantapur, Kadiri, Andhra Pradesh, India | This crown is not from a single trunk. It has hundreds of trunks. |
| Coolibah (Eucalyptus microtheca. synonym Eucalyptus coolibah) | 72.8 | 239 | Monkira Monster | Neuragully Waterhole, southwestern Queensland, Australia | Groom's measurement may represent the tree at its prime. It was remeasured in 2008 and found to be "more than 200 meters" (more than 656 feet) in circumference; equivalent to an average limb spread of more than 209 feet (more than 64 meters). The trunk is about ten feet thick (ten meters girth). |
| Oriental plane (Platanus orientalis) | 64.0 | 210 | Oriental Plane Tree at Corsham Court | Wiltshire, England. | |
| Raintree or monkeypod tree (Samanea saman) | 63.1 | 207 | Saman de Guere | San Mateo, Aragua State, Venezuela. Living, but "vetusto" (superannuated, or decrepit). | The widest Monkeypod Tree at present is "Chamchuri" on a military post near Kanchanburi, Thailand, which is 198 ft 1 in (60.38 m) in spread while only 57 ft 8 in (17.58 m) in height. Broadest cantilevered crown (no limbs resting on the ground). |
| Silk-cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) | 61.3 | 201 | The Big Tree | Barro Colorado Island, Panama | |
| European yew (Taxus baccata) | 55.5 | 182 | Shugborough Yew | Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, England | Broadest gymnosperm. |
| Sand post oak (Quercus stellata margarettae) | 55.2 | 181 | Gilchrist County, Florida | ||
| Turkey oak (Quercus cerris) | 53.9 | 177 | Devon, England. | ||
| Moreton Bay fig (Ficus macrophylla) | 53.6 | 176 | Moreton Bay Fig Tree | Chapala Street in Santa Barbara, California. | |
| Scarlet Oak (Quercus coccinea) | 53.6 | 176 | Middlesboro, Kentucky | ||
| Coast live oak (Quercus agrifolia) | 53.6 | 176 | The Pechanga Great Oak | Pechanga Native American Reservation east of Temecula, California. | Also 29 m (95 ft) tall. |
| Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum) | 53.3 | 175 | El Gigante | Santa Maria del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico | Broadest cantilevered Gymnosperm. |
| Blackbutt (Eucalyptus pilularis) | 51.8 | 170 | Benaroon | John's River in Middle Brother National Park, New South Wales, Australia. | |
| Live oak (Quercus virginiana) | 51.8 | 170 | The E. O. Hunt Oak | Long Beach, Mississippi | |
| American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) | 51.5 | 169 | The Lansdowne Sycamore | Lansdowne, Pennsylvania | |
| African Baobab (Adansonia digitata) | 51.2 | 168 | The Glencoe Tree | Huidespruit, Limpopo Province, South Africa. | Now severely damaged |
| Batai (Albizzia falcata) | 50.9 | 167 | Hawai'i | ||
| Green Fig (Ficus virens) | Over fifty meters | over 165 feet. | (no individual name) | Boar's Pocket, northern Queensland | crown shades "over 2,000 sq. meters" |
| Species | Age (years) | Tree name | Location | Notes and References |
| Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) | 4,857 | Methuselah | Inyo County, California, United States | |
| Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) | 3,266 | Sierra Nevada, California, USA | Dead | |
| Western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis) | 2,675 | Sierra Nevada, California, USA | Dead | |
| Bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) | 2,650 | North Carolina, USA | ||
| Rocky Mountain Bristlecone Pine (Pinus aristata) | 2,468 | central Colorado, USA | ||
| African Baobab (Adansonia digitata) | 2,419 | Matabeleland, Zimbabwe | ||
| Sacred fig (Ficus religiosa) | 2,302 | Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka | ||
| Przewalski's juniper (Juniperus przewalskii) | 2,230 | Delingha, Qinghai Province, China | ||
| Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) | 2,200 | northern California, USA | Dead | |
| Saharan Cypress (Cupressus dupreziana) | 2,200 | Wadi Tichouinet, southern Algeria. | ||
| Foxtail pine (Pinus balfouriana) | 2,110 | Sierra Nevada, California, USA |
| Species | Diameter | Tree name | Location | Notes and References | |
| Meters | Feet | ||||
| Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) | 3.8 | 12.6 | The Big Limb Tree | Atwell Mill Grove, Sequoia National Park, California | |
| Za (Adansonia za) | 2.7 | 9 | The Ampanihy Baobab | north of Morombe, Madagascar | Thickest limb on a dicot |
| African baobab (Adansonia digitata) | 2.4 | 8 | The Big Tree | Messina Nature Reserve, Limpopo Province, South Africa | |
| Coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) | 2.1 | 7 | Kronos | Atlas Grove, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park | |
| Kauri (Agathis australis) | 2.1 | 7 | Nga Mahangahua | Tutamoe State Forest, North Island, New Zealand | |
| White oak (Quercus alba) | 1.8 | 6 | The Wye Oak | Wye Mills, Maryland | Died June 6, 2002 |
| Kapok or Silk Cotton Tree (Ceiba pentandra) | 1.8 | 6 | General statement; no individual cited | ||
| Canary Island Dragon Tree (Dracaena draco) | 1.75 | 5.75 | The Orotava Tree | Orotava, Tenerife, Canary Islands | Died October 1869; thickest limb on a monocot |
| Moreton Bay Fig (Ficus macrophylla) | 1.7 | or more | The Children's Tree | Sydney Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney, Australia | |
| Silver Fir (Abies alba) | 1.7 | 5.5 | Sabin Candelabre | Jura Alps of France, near the Swiss border | |
| Rain Tree (Samanea saman) | 1.5 | 4.9 | Caribbean region – this one near Nagarote, Nicaragua | Measured by Dr. Berthold Seemann. | |
| California Live Oak (Quercus agrifolia) | 1.5 | 4.9 | Six kilometers (four miles) west of Gilroy, California | ||