VIDEO. The largest living organism is over 2,200 years old

General Sherman, a giant sequoia in Sequoia national Park (California) -

Followers of sylvotherapy, do not expect to hug - not entirely, in any case - the most popular attraction in Sequoia National Park (California), whose sole base measures… 11 meters in diameter!

Nicknamed General Sherman, after an American serviceman who fought in the Civil War, this juggernaut may not be the largest tree in the world, but it is the largest.

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Its volume represents the equivalent of 16 blue whales, its weight that of 230 African elephants and it would be necessary to stack 20 giraffes to equal its size!

Crazy proportions envied, but not yet equaled, by the neighboring sequoias of this "old branch" more than two thousand years old.

Discover the excesses of this variety in the video of our partner Brut:

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