That is, this tree is so big you can scarcely look at it all. It has a name, the President, bestowed about 90 years ago by admiring humans. It’s a giant sequoia, a member of Sequoiadendron ...

I came across stories about the Kapok, also called by its scientific name ‘ceiba pentandra’, which is seen as the grandmother tree in South ... of this 200 year old giant, that had supported ...