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Hyperion (Tree)

by carabiner on 3/14/25, 6:55 AM with 17 comments

• by politelemon on 3/14/25, 7:51 AM

  I was wondering whether the editors had debated whether or not to also help keep Hyperion's location secret, indeed there is discussion, and several back-and-forth inclusion/retractions of the location, on the talk page of that article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Hyperion_(tree)

• by mkl on 3/16/25, 4:17 AM

  See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_trees

  I hadn't heard of the second and third tallest species, South Tibetan cypress and Yellow meranti. There are also far more very tall eucalyptus species than I expected.

  Unfortunately these are just the tallest current trees, and there are records (some believable, some dubious) of much taller trees in the relatively recent past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superlative_trees#Tall...

• by fifticon on 3/16/25, 7:47 AM

  nice to see all the fern tramplers signing in, sigh :-/

• by xnx on 3/16/25, 4:19 AM

  Amazing. Like a 38 story building. Much taller than the Statue of Liberty. Almost as tall as Starship.

• by solardev on 3/16/25, 5:42 AM

  The book The Wild Trees is a fantastic story about finding this tree.

• by azurezyq on 3/16/25, 6:23 AM

  Hiked to the tree a few years ago. It is a very strong, healthy, attractive tree. You really feel the power of life when looking at it. Mighty.