Sequoiadendron giganteum

Domain: Eukaryota • Regnum: Plantae • Phylum: Tracheophyta • Divisio: Pinophyta • Classis: Pinopsida • Ordo: Pinales • Familia: Cupressaceae • Genus: Sequoiadendron • Species: Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl.) J.Buchholz

See also: Sequoia sempervirens

Vernacular names

English: Giant Sequoia
العربية: سكويا عملاقة
беларуская: Секвоядэндран
български: Гигантска секвоя
català: Sequoia gegant
čeština: Sekvojovec obrovský
dansk: Mammuttræ
Deutsch: Riesenmammutbaum
Esperanto: Sekvojadendro
español: Secuoya gigante
eesti: Mammutipuu
فارسی: درخت غول
suomi: Mammuttipetäjä
français: Séquoia géant
עברית: סקוויה ענקית
hrvatski: Golemi mamutovac
magyar: Óriás mamutfenyő
Ido: Sequoyo
italiano: Sequoia gigante
日本語: セコイアデンドロン
한국어: 세쿼이아덴드론
перем коми: Секвойядендрон
коми: Секвойядендрон
Latina: Sequoiadendron
lietuvių: Didysis mamutmedis
македонски: Џиновска секвоја
кырык мары: Секвойядендрон
Nederlands: Mammoetboom
norsk: Mammuttre
polski: Mamutowiec olbrzymi
português: Sequoia-gigante
русский: Секвойядендрон
slovenčina: Sekvojovec mamutí
slovenščina: Mamutovec
svenska: Mammutträd
удмурт: Секвойядендрон
українська: Секвоядендрон
West-Vlams: Mammoetbôom
中文: 巨杉

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Images of the whole plant

Wild specimens

Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park

Grizzly Giant
California Tree
Mariposa Grove
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park
Wawona Tree
California Tree
Clothespin tree

Generals Sherman and Grant

Sequoia National Park
General Sherman tree, Sequoia National Park
General Sherman tree
General Sherman tree
General Sherman tree
General Sherman tree
General Sherman tree
General Grant tree, Sequoia National Park
General Grant tree
General Grant tree
General Grant tree

Other groves

Sequoia National Park
Sequoia National Park
Mariposa Big Trees Park
Grant Grove
Sequoia National Park
Sequoia National Park

Cultivated specimens

in private garden in Berlin
In Jardin du Pré-Catelan
In Arboretum de la Vallée-aux-Loups
In Arboretum de la Vallée-aux-Loups
Le Havre
Kenilworth Castle
New Forest, Hampshire, England
Viladrau (Osona, Catalonia)
Tree in France, seen from the base
Enschede, Ledeboerpark.
Stump of a freshly felled sequoia
Pennsylvania state champion
Tyler Arboretum
The biggest in Belgium
The biggest in Belgium
La Hulpe, Parc Solvay
La Hulpe, Parc Solvay
La Hulpe, Parc Solvay
Parc Mariemont (Belgium)
Parc Mariemont
Mouscron, Belgium
Budakeszi, Hungary - planted in 1900
Chabaně, Czech Republic
in PAN Botanical Garden in Warsaw, Poland
Oliwa, Gdańsk, Poland
Group of Trees in Botanical Gardens Berlin
Celle, Germany
Isny, Germany
Löwenstein, Germany
Marburg, Germany
Weinheim, Germany

Cultivars

Sequoiadendron giganteum 'Glaucum'
Sequoiadendron giganteum 'Pendulum'
'Pendulum'
'Hazel Smith', U.S. National Arboretum, September 2014

Seedlings

A Giant Sequoia Seedling
Scion
9 months old
two weeks old
Sprouted seed

Leaves

In Jardin du Pré-Catelan
Leaves
Leaves

Cones

Cones and seed
Leaves with closed pollen cones
Opened pollen cones
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park
Cones, Calaveras Big Trees State Park
Green Cone with Leaves
Immature seed (female) cones, Portland, Oregon USA October
Unopened pollen (male) cones, Portland, Oregon USA October
Green mature cones, Germany

Bark

Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park
Bark
Bonanical Garden of Bochum, Germany
Tyler Arboretum

Maps, illustrations, art

Range map
Near Sequoia National Park
Painting by Albert Bierstadt