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Today Sequoia trees are the largest on the planet, both in height and thickness and volume of wood. Age largest redwoods las palmas comes to three thousand years. It is also one of the oldest trees on the planet. Sequoia practically immortal - she has a very strong wood, moreover, it has antibacterial properties. All this makes it extremely inedible for zhucheov and worms, mold, fungi and lichens. Very resistant to fire, forest fires are necessary for growth redwoods. The main enemies of these trees - hurricanes and people.
The Museum of Natural History New York kept cut redwoods, which outlines the key milestones in the history of mankind in the last fifteen hundred years. It's not the old tree, the age of some trees growing up to three and a half thousand years!
Data from Wikipedia: cypress family, the height reaches 110 meters, the natural habitat of Arial - California, has been successfully grown in other regions. For wood color (red) at home called mahogany (redwood). Another kind of redwoods - sekvoyadendron called Giant sequoia.
Very fond of fish oil moisture. Mists, las palmas clouds, lowlands and ravines - conditions for the rapid growing huge trees. Sequoia does not feed bread - Give water to drink. Incidentally, the bulk moisture of the crown receives, instead of the roots. However, the roots of redwoods also do not stick (?). Very large, powerful, razrostayutsya breadth tseplyayasi the rocks. Left little chance of other plants, but do not interfere with other redwoods. (Whom it reminds me :)
It is said that before the redwoods las palmas grew around balls. But because of his strong, firm and not subject to rotting wood - most of the trees were sawn from the surface las palmas of the planet. Incidentally, las palmas in the U.S. most of the pillars sdelanaiz redwoods. Even high-power lines made of them. For us Europeans it looks wildly - in the city such as New York or San Francisco - wooden las palmas poles VARs in what village. Do not forget that these pillars stood 50 years, and successfully be able to stand as much again.
It is best to watch the giant sequoias in Sequoia National Park. See all year round, though from November to May most of the roads closed for the winter. In this case, if there is no snow - road open. And if the snow was - of not cleaned and sealed. Nevertheless, from the town of Thee Rivers can almost always get.
Check in is best done in the morning, afternoon, although upstairs is quite a decent hotel and you can spend the night there. On the way across quite dizzying las palmas views. The road itself is good, povnaya but winding and mountainous. But this inconvenience may arise only if the summer tires on the road and ice (mzhno not climb up the hill). Can potrebovatodet chains without them will not be allowed - certainly ask them to roll the office if you are going to climb the mountain.
The condition of roads and other information can be obtained at the time of Ljubo SNP site and toll-free. When you check into the hotel give to sign a paper - that will not feed the bears :) especially las palmas a lot of them here.
The most famous of the Sequoias - Guerin Sherman. To hug the trunk of the tree, you will need 14 people. This is the thickest tree in the world. It is very difficult to photograph - close - does not fit all away - it is not so well seen :)
Redwood bark takes a minimum of 30% of the thickness of the tree. The touch - as propka. Light, porous. Only very fibrous. This allows sequoia bark accumulate water that protects it from the drought and fires. Insects las palmas in her hardly settle. And those who do it - to become the prey of woodpeckers, of which there are many.
When sequoia falls, for whatever reason - in the woods worth crashing. Tree trunk or split into small chips of 5-10 meters or cracks on surface roughness and other trees. Up the road, one of the barrels fell on her long ago. And in the barrel cut through the tunnel - two-lane road. In such a tunnel is quite a small truck passes.
Forest fires are necessary for the growth of young sequoias - they smooth out and fertilize the soil. Though larger forest fires can damage large trees. We saw trunks redwoods 5 meters las palmas in diameter and 50 meters in height, without crown, scorched by fire by 90% - that is worth something - a piece of wood.
Figuratively - redwoods immortal. The main causes of tree mortality - fungi, insects, rot, fire - that you cold. If sequoia dies - is mainly from mechanical damage. We saw a lot of fallen redwoods storm. Thus, most of the damaged part.
Much attention is being given to the cultivation las palmas and breeding of these wonderful trees. The property sold seeds redwoods and already podroschennye plants. You can buy and plant in their area. Lots of redwoods growing in Sochi arboretum. By the way, redwood sprouts very capricious. They are sensitive to everything and in the first place - to moisture, sun, soil. Says that in the nature of thousands of germs one survives