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Jardin botanique de Montréal 
Centre for Forest Research

Trivial pursuit … the plant version!

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Hyperion, a Coast redwood in California, is the tallest tree in the world, with a height of 115.55 m (in 2006). However, the tallest tree ever measured was a eucalyptus, a Tasmanian giant gum tree, that toppled following a brush fire in 1872. It was 132.6 m tall.

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Sequoia sempervirens

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