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The Giant Sequoia
See Foot Note Below
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The Amazing Redwood Trees |
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Ancient Kauri Trees |
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The Lord of the Forest"
"Tane Mahuta" |
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Pecan Tree |
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The Champion Tree Project |
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The Big Tree |
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Cork Suber
To see two Cork
Suber Trees, visit the
Union State Bank, Main Street, Kerrville, Tx
See Photo
Gallery |
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Ginkgo - The Maidenhair Tree |
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The Bonsai
Tree |
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Most Massive Living Organism
A Grove of an Aspen Tree |
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"Archaeoperis"
The Most Ancient Tree |
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WELWITSCHIA MIRABILIS
Dwarf Trees |
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"MORE
INTERESTING THINGS ABOUT TREES" |
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Foot Note |
Coastal Redwoods and Giant Sequoia Trees
A few Years ago, researchers
discovered that the giant coastal redwoods can
create rain by condensing heavy fog, enabling the
life - saving water to reach their roots. Now
research has revealed that the tallest trees in
the world actually drink from the clouds that
hover over the coast for much of the dry season.
Essentially these tall giants have two ends that
take in water -- the top and the bottom.... and
may explain how they
achieve the giant heights. Cloud drinking is the
key in enabling the mammoth trees to grow as high
as 37 stories. Current research suggest that a
tree's ability to siphon water from the roots to
its canopy -- against gravity and friction -- is
one of the most limiting factors in how tall trees
are able to grow. Theory says you can't transport
water that high. Yet trees do it all the time.
Research continues to study this phenomenon
further to
see how much water these 2000 year old trees
absorb through their branches and needles. The
closes estimate is.
It is a bunch ! |
