World's 2nd tallest tree found in Tibet (video)

Jess Thomson, Newsweek, 6/22/23; Crystal Q., Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Tree as tall as Statue of Liberty discovered in world's deepest canyon

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An enormous tree has been discovered inside the deepest canyon in the world. It is thought to be the tallest tree in Asia, as well as the second-tallest tree in the entire world.

The cypress tree was discovered in the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon Nature Reserve in Nyingchi City, Bome County, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, by a Peking University research team.

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The tree was found to stand 335 feet tall, according to a statement from Peking University, 30 feet (10 meters) taller than the 305-foot Statue of Liberty.

Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon is considered the deepest canyon on land in the world [with deeper ones in the deep ocean, like the Mariana Trench], reaching an average depth of around 16,000 feet and a maximum depth of 19,714 feet.

• Our relatively small U.S. "Grand" Canyon lags behind Mexico's massive Copper Canyon (part of the same Sierra Madre range), but no one mentions that. There are other other great canyons.

According to the statement, the tree is a Himalayan or Bhutan cypress (Cupressus torulosa), while other reports in Chinese state media cite the tree as being a Tibetan cypress (Cupressus gigantea).

The tree was discovered using a drone carrying a LiDAR sensor, another Peking University statement explained.

LiDAR is similar to sonar and echolocation, using laser light instead of sound to map out surroundings.

Using the data gathered by the LiDAR, researchers from Peking University, the Xizijiang Conservation Center and the Shan Shui Conservation Center created a 3D model of the huge tree, which was confirmed as being the largest tree in Asia after a field survey.

• The oldest confirmed tree is the bodhi ("enlightenment") tree or sacred fig (Ficus religiosa) the Buddha sat under, not the actual one, which was destroyed by marauding Muslims in Bihar, India, who could not stand to see a tree honored, but rather a cutting from that tree, now grown massive on the island of predominantly Buddhist Sri Lanka.

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Grove of enormous cypress trees growing in the Himalayas (Peking University)

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This tree has broken previous records set by the same team for the tallest tree in China:

In April 2022, they discovered a 252-foot tree in Medog County, while only a month later, they found a 272-foot-tall fir tree in southwest China.

There are also a huge number of massive trees in this area, with 25 over 295 feet having been discovered near the record-breaking tree.

Himalayan and Tibetan cypresses are rare in the wild, with only a few living in the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon National Nature Reserve. They are a first-class protected plant species in China. The cypresses are in Tibet (southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region).

Then this 335-foot cypress was discovered, making it the tallest tree in Asia, and second-tallest tree in the world.

The world's tallest tree (California redwood)

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The tallest tree in the world can be found in Redwood National Park in California, measuring a staggering 381 feet.

This coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), first found in 2006, is thought to be between 600 and 800 years old and is nicknamed Hyperion.

With this newly discovered tree filling the second-tallest spot,

• the third-tallest tree is a 330-foot mountain ash in Australia,
• the fourth is a 327-foot Coast Douglas fir in Oregon, and
• the fifth is Menara, a 323.3-foot yellow meranti found in Malaysia. More