It is difficult today to surprise a person with tall towers and buildings. Huge structures can be found in any part of the Earth. Another thing is what nature gives us, causing admiration and surprise. Giant trees fascinate with their uniqueness at first sight. Being near such natural wonders, you feel like a dwarf. This is another proof of the greatness and beauty of nature.
The article provides information about the largest tree in Russia.
Briefly about the largest trees in the world
The exact place of growth of the largest trees in the world is kept secret, in connection with this, photographs of them are almost impossible to find. The information is classified so that the flow of tourists cannot destroy the infrastructure and prevent these trees from growing further. Before we move on to describing the largest tree in Russia, let's briefly introduce the largest plants in the world.
Mostbiggest trees in the world:
- Mendosino sequoia tree (112.2 m high, 4.19 m diameter), growing in the USA.
- Sequoia Paradox (diameter - 3.9 m, height - 112.6 m).
- Rockefeller Sequoia (height - 112.6 m, exact diameter unknown).
- Sequoia Lauraline (112.6 m - height, diameter - 4.5 m).
- Sequoia Orion (112.6 m - height, diameter - 4.3 m).
- Sequoia National Geographic Society (112.7 m - height, diameter - 4.4 m).
- Sequoia Giant of the Stratosphere (diameter - 5.2 m, height - 113.11 m).
- Sequoia Icarus (diameter - 3.8 m, height - 113.1 m).
- Sequoia Helios (diameter - almost 5 m, height - 114.6 m);
- Hyperion Sequoia is the tallest tree in the world (height - 115.61 m, age - about 800 years).
As you can see, all the highest places of honor belong to the sequoia growing in the USA. But if you exclude it from the list of champions, the championship can go to deciduous trees. For example, in Tasmania grows the largest tree - the royal eucalyptus Centruion (height - 101 meters), belonging to deciduous plants.
What is the biggest tree in Russia?
Fir can be called one of the most common and largest types of trees in Russia, belonging to the pine family. You can meet her in the territories from Primorye to Kaliningrad. It can also be found together with other coniferous tree species, a little less often it grows in deciduous forests. They also grow in pure fir plantations.
A tree grows up to 60 meters in height with an average of about 30-50 meters. Approximately 150-200 years is the life expectancy, depending on the place of growth. For the most part, firs growing in the Krasnodar Territory reach a height of up to 80 meters with a trunk diameter at the bottom of about 2 meters.
The name of the largest tree in Russia from the pine family is the Nordmann fir (Caucasian). This species of trees lives much longer than other relatives, and their age can reach from 500 to 700 years.
Nordmann fir has a beautiful crown in the form of a pyramid. Its needles are shiny with a dark green color, and below with white stripes. It got its name in honor of Alexander von Nordmann (professor), who was in charge of the Odessa Botanical Garden at the end of the 19th century. It should be noted that the fir is the most popular tree in Europe during the Christmas period.
A more detailed description of fir
The largest tree in Russia (the photo is presented in the article) is a rather powerful plant. Its height (from 80 to 100 meters) is equal to the height of a 30-storey building. Differs in a rather dense crown of dark green color, growing from the very bottom of the trunk. The powerful tap root of the plant goes far and deep into the ground. Even the most powerful wind cannot knock down such a tree.
The young bark of a tree is smooth and gray in color, but with age it thickens significantly and becomes covered with deep cracks. On the bark there are many convex tubercles and passages in which resin accumulates. flat and narrowthe needles are soft and not prickly to the touch, and they live, not falling off even after the branches dry, for about 10-15 years.
At first, the tree grows slowly, only at the age of 12-14, its growth rate begins to grow. A long-lived tree lives on average about 400 years, but there are also specimens that live up to 700 years.
Fir forests are called fir forests. It is always damp and dark in them, but among these trees, herbs and lingonberries grow at their very roots. You can meet aspen, oaks, maples and beeches in the fir forest.
Spread fir
The largest tree in Russia is quite widely used in the economy and in medicine. Fir is an evergreen coniferous plant, distributed throughout the entire Northern Hemisphere of the planet (northern part of Eurasia). This tree is found even in the polar regions, near the lower reaches of the Yenisei. In Russia, 10 varieties of the tree grow. Rich in this coniferous vegetation and East Asia (mostly Japan).
Some of the species are found in Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Algerian fir grows in North Africa.
Today, about 47 species of fir are known: Caucasian, Siberian, Korean, white, balsamic, hard, Sakhalin, Himalayan and others.
In conclusion
There are many legends associated with the largest tree in Russia. One of them belongs to the period of Ancient Greece. There is one legend that tells that the wood of the Caucasian fir wasused in the construction of the famous Trojan horse. Thanks to this fact, another name was given to this tree - the tree of Apollo.
As noted above, Caucasian fir is the most common and popular tree for Christmas celebrations. A distinctive feature of this variety is the appearance of needles, which have two parallel stripes of white color on the reverse side.
