Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Franklin tree, the world's seventh largest tree

Franklin tree, the seventh largest giant sequoia in the world as of 2008, is in the Giant Forest within Sequoia National Park located in the western Sierra Nevada of California. Here the largest tree in the world the General Sherman also lives. The Franklin tree was named after Benjamin Franklin. The forest has five out of the ten largest trees by volume on the planet.

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