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The Robert E. Lee Tree |
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Richard Field, a confederate lieutenant, named this tree around 1875. Although it is the 11st largest tree in the world and the second largest in Kings Canyon National Park, the Robert E. Lee Tree is often overshadowed by its bigger brother, the General Grant Tree. However, a recent study discovered something very remarkable about this giant:
A few more bits of interesting data emerged when one of the largest living Sequoiadendron trees, the Robert E. Lee tree, was studied in detail
during July of 2007. This one tree has approximately five times the living leaf biomass
of the largest Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) ever measured, and has approximately 2.8 billion living leaves. XXXThat is 2,800,000,000 leaves!
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| Gen. Lee Tree & Fallen Monarch | Looking up to General Lee | Looking at about one billion leaves |
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