Lindsey Creek tree
Introduction The '''Lindsey Creek tree''' was the largest single-stem organism (tree) known to have existed historically. It was a coast redwood (also known as California redwood), a member of the species ''Sequoia sempervirens''. It grew in Fieldbrook, California, along the Lindsey Creek, which feeds into the Mad River. There are no known photographs of the tree. When it was uprooted and felled by a storm in 1905, its mass and dimensions were estimated, with a weight of at least 3,630 short tons, 3.3 million kilograms, or 7.26 million pounds and trunk volume of at least 2,550 cubic meters (90,000 cubic feet). If these estimates were correct, this would have made it close to twice the size (in volume) of the largest living single-stem tree, the giant sequoia known as General Sherman; nearly triple that of the largest living coast redwood, Grogan's Fault, and having a trunk volume five times larger than the tallest of its species existing today, the Hyperion, only ten feet shorter at 380.1 feet.The only tree in the historical record which (may have been) as large or larger is the "Father of the Forest" from Calaveras Big Trees State Park, a colossal giant sequoia which reportedly was once  high and  in circumference. This tree collapsed centuries ago, and its remains are still present in the park's territory. Nothing remains of the Lindsey tree, however.
Johnson claims Skip Johnson, a Fieldbrook logger interviewed in 1971, testified that he witnessed the Lindsey Creek Tree after it had fallen. He reported it as the tallest tree in Fieldbrook. He stated that a family member measured its diameter at  at  off the ground, and  at  off the ground, and its total height slightly exceeded . Fairly solid evidence indicates that coast redwoods were the world's largest trees before logging, with numerous historical specimens reportedly over . Hyperion, another coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), currently the tallest, is , which also makes it the world's tallest known living tree.
See also *List of superlative trees*List of individual trees
References
Further reading *Walter Fry and John Roberts White. ''Big Trees.'' Stanford, Calif., Stanford University Press; London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press; First Printing, 1930, xvi, 126 pp. ; ill.; 22.2 cm. x 14.4 cm. * Donald Culross Peattie. ''A Natural History of Western Trees.'' Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1950..
External links * ''Interesting Tree Facts'', United Nations Environment Programme