the Botanical name - Sequoia sempervirens
The English name - Sequoia, Big-tree
Sort of evergreen coniferous trees of family taksodievyh. A unique kind - a sequoia evergreen (Sequoia sempervirens). Together with sekvoiyadendronom concerns the highest trees (reach heights over 100 m and diameter 8,5). The sequoia Founders Tree as believe, is the highest tree in the world, 360 foots in height, with diameter of 46 foots. Grows in mountains of California and Southern Oregon; forms poroslevye woods. In Europe and Asia the sequoia is found in a fossil condition. Trees can live, till 4000 years.