The Senator (tree) - Wikipedia
网页The Senator was the biggest and oldest bald cypress [1] tree in the world, located in Big Tree Park, Longwood, Florida. At the time of its demise in 2012, it was approximately 3,500 years old, 125 feet (38 m) tall, and with a trunk diameter of 11.27 feet (3.44 m). [2] In 2012, the tree was killed when a drug addict started a garbage fire near ...
Cat Island Bald Cypress – St Francisville, Louisiana - Atlas Obscura
网页2023年1月27日 — A survivor of the cypress logging after the Civil War, this bald cypress is the sixth-largest tree in the U.S. and the largest tree east of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It boasts a...
The Senator: Once the oldest, biggest cypress tree in the world
网页2024年6月10日 — In this 1946 photo, people admire The Senator, a cypress tree in Longwood, Florida that was 127 feet high, 47 feet in circumference, 17.5 feet in diameter and 3,500 years old before it caught...
Bald cypress trees in the United States - Monumental Trees, an ...
网页The world's biggest swamp cypress The bald cypress tree with the largest girth can be found in Cat Island, a national wildlife refuge in one of the turns of the Mississippi, near St. Francisville (West Feliciana Parish), Louisiana. Its diameter is 5,21 m or 17 feet.
This 1200-Year-Old Tree Stands Tall in the Louisiana Swamps
网页2023年8月16日 — As water levels in the Mississippi River drop, visitors are turning out in record numbers to see the country’s largest bald cypress. Measuring a whopping 17 feet wide, 57 feet around, and 83 feet high, it’s no wonder the monolith is drawing such a crowd.
Cat Island’s Bald Cypress Trail In Louisiana Will Lead You Straight …
网页2023年1月2日 — Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge in St. Francisville is home to the largest bald cypress tree in the United States and offers a rich natural habitat for Louisiana Menu
Big Tree Park - Oldest Bald Cypress Tree in the World
网页Today we are walking around Big Tree Park in Longwood, Florida to visit the biggest and oldest Bald Cypress Tree in the world known as The Senator, estimated to be 3,500 years old.
Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
网页The refuge is home to a national champion bald cypress, one of the largest tree of any species east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Estimated to be about 1,500 years old, the tree is 96 feet tall, 17 feet in diameter and 56 feet in circumference.
Bald Cypress - Friends of the Louisiana State Arboretum
网页The state tree of Louisiana, Bald Cypress is called the wood eternal because of the heartwood’s resistance to decay. It has the largest trunk diameter (to over 17’) of all eastern trees and is the longest living tree species in the eastern U.S. with oldest cypress recorded at …
Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge - louisianalife.com
网页2024年5月1日 — Cat Island is home to a 1,500-year-old Champion Bald Cypress, the largest bald cypress specimen in the United States. At 96-feet tall, 17 feet in diameter, and 56 feet in circumference, it’s the largest tree in North America east of the Sierra Nevada mountains and the sixth-largest tree in the country.