Nearly 500 saplings of the world's largest tree, the giant sequoia, have been planted in Brecon. The team behind the One Life One Tree project said it could be the largest plantation of its type ...

In cultivation these trees do not grow as large as those in their home forests of California ... The idea that Endlicher coined the name Sequoia in honour of this extraordinary man comes from his ...

It puts that wood around the trunk, which grows wider, and into the limbs and the branches, which grow thicker. The giant sequoia is a snow tree, Sillett says, adapted for long winters in the Sierra.

She's a sixth grade student at STEAM Magnet Elementary School in Lake Forest, California in the United States talking about a giant sequoia [[seh-KOY-ah]] tree seedling planted at the school.

Sequoia trees are undoubtedly one of the most astounding living organisms on our planet. In the days of the Jurassic period, giant sequoia trees flourished throughout the Northern Hemisphere.

Now the fires in the area are threatening the state's sequoia trees Firefighters are wrapping fire-resistant blankets around ancient trees as blazes tear through California's world-famous Sequoia ...