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1.	The tallest tree in the United States is called Hyperion.  The name is taken from the Titan in Greek Mythology.  It is taller than the Statue of Liberty.  It is a Coast Redwood, a sequoia semperviren, measured at 379.1 feet tall in 2006.  It is located in California’s Redwood National Park.

2.	Bristlecone Pine is the oldest species of tree still living in the world today.  The oldest living Bristlecone Pine is 4,789 years old and has been named Methuselah.  It is located in the White Mountains of California.

3.	Gingko has been around since the reign of dinosaurs and has been dubbed The Living Fossil.  It is unusual because its leaves uptake nourishment by capillaries and numerous branching parallel veins rather than midrib veins as in other trees.  Its leaves have no midribs.

4.	The oldest tree in Tennessee was a Bald Cypress.  It lived to be 1,350 years old and stood 175 feet tall, and had a diameter of 13 feet.  It was located on the Middle Fork of Obion River in Weakley County, Tennessee.

5.	Savage Gulf in Grundy County, Tennessee.

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7.	Maine on the North and Georgia on the South.

8.	Humboldt Redwoods State Park in California.  It is home to about 60% of the world’s tallest trees.

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