Trees are one of the main components of our environment.
We have many famous forests on this planet, which are home to thousands of trees.
Of all these trees, some are small and large, some are short and tall, and some are thick
and thin.
In today's episode, we will look at the top 10 tallest trees in the world that you may
have never seen before.
Dinizia excelsa is the number 10th tallest tree in the world.
It is a South American canopy-emergent tropical rainforest tree species in the family Fabaceae,
native to primarily Brazil and Guyana.
It is the tallest-growing species in the pea family, and one of the tallest tropical tree
species in any family, reaching 88.5 meters or 290 feet and taller.
It is found in Guyana, Suriname, and Amazonia Brazil.
The species grows in non-inundated moist and upland mixed forests, tropical forests, tropical
upland evergreen forests, and tropical dry forests.
Noble Fir is the number 9th tallest tree in the world.
It is a western North American fir, native to the Cascade Range and northwest California,
United States.
It is a high altitude tree, typically happening at 89 meters or 295 feet altitude.
The bark on young trees is smooth and gray with resin blisters, becoming red-brown, rough,
and fissured on old trees.
The leaves are needle-like, 1 to 3.5 centimeter long, glaucous blue-green above, and below
with strong stomal bands.
Southern Blue gum is the number 8th tallest tree in the world.
Blue gum is a species of tall, evergreen tree endemic to southeastern Australia.
This Eucalyptus species has mostly smooth bark, juvenile leaves that are whitish and
waxy on the lower surface, glossy green, white flowers, and woody fruit.
Blue gum is a tree that typically grows to a height of 148 feet but may sometimes only
be a stunted shrub, or alternatively under ideal conditions can grow as tall as 90.7
meters or 298 feet.
Manna gum is the number 7th tallest tree in the world.
It is a species of small to a very tall tree that is endemic to south-eastern Australia.
It has smooth bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three
or seven, white flowers, and cup-shaped or hemispherical fruit.
It is a tree that typically grows to a height of 160 feet, sometimes to 92 meters or 302
feet, and forms a lignotuber.
It is a crumbly white substance, of a very pleasant, sweet taste, and in much request
by the aborigines.
Giant sequoia is the number 6th tallest tree in the world.
Its specimens are the most massive trees on Earth.
The common use of the name sequoia usually refers to Sequoiadendron giganteum, which
happens naturally only in groves on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain range
of California.
Giant sequoia specimens are the most massive individual trees in the world.
They grow to an average height of 164–279 feet.
Record trees have been measured at 96.3 meters or 316 feet tall.
Sitka spruce is the number 5th tallest tree in the world.
It is a large, coniferous, and evergreen tree growing to almost 96.7 meters or 317 feet
tall.
It is by far the largest species of spruce, and the fifth-largest conifer in the world.
Its range hugs the western coast of Canada and the USA, continuing south into northernmost
California.
The bark is thin and scaly, flaking off in small, circular plates 5 to 20 centimeters
across.
The inner bark is reddish-brown.
Sitka spruce is a long lived tree, with individuals over 700 years old.
Coast Douglas-fir is the number 4th tallest tree in the world.
It is an evergreen conifer native to western North America from west-central British Columbia.
The bark on young trees is thin, smooth, gray, and contains numerous resin blisters.
On mature trees, it is thick and corky.
The shoots are brown to olive-green, turning gray-brown with age.
The maximum heights of this tree are 99.7 meters or 327 feet.
Mountain ash is the number 3rd tallest tree in the world.
It is a species of medium sized to very tall forest tree that is native to Tasmania and
Victoria, Australia.
It is a straight trunked tree with smooth grey bark.
It is the tallest of all flowering plants.
It often grows in pure stands in tall wet forests, sometimes with rainforest understory,
and high rainfall areas with deep loam soils.
Mountain ash is a broad leaved and evergreen tree, that typically grows to a height of
100.5 meters or 329 feet, but does not form a lignotuber.
Yellow meranti is the number 2nd tallest tree in the world.
It is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae.
It is native to Borneo, the Malay Peninsula, and Thailand.
The tallest documented angiosperm is a Shorea faguetiana, which is 100.8 meters or 331 feet
tall and it is found in the Danum Valley Conservation Area, in Sabah on the island of Borneo.
The tree's height is measured from the top of the crown to the lowest part of the buttress.
Coast redwood is the number one tallest tree in the world.
It is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family.
It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living 1,200 to 2,200 years or more.
This species includes the tallest living trees on Earth, reaching up to 115.92 meters or
380 feet in height.
These trees are also among the oldest living things on Earth.
The leaves are variable, long, flat on young trees, and shaded lower branches in older
trees.
Coast redwood reproduces both sexually by seed and asexually by sprouting buds, layering,
or lignotubers.