Adam (tree) facts for kids
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The Adam Tree is a truly enormous giant sequoia tree. It stands tall in the Mountain Home Grove, which is a special group of sequoia trees found within the Giant Sequoia National Monument in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. The Adam Tree is one of the biggest trees in the world! It's currently ranked as the 21st largest giant sequoia. Some people even think it could be the 20th largest, depending on how much another tree, the Ishi Giant, changed after a big fire in 2015.
Discovering the Adam Tree
The Adam Tree got its name around 1884 from a person named Jesse Hoskins. He was also known for creating a room inside another giant tree in the same grove, called the Hercules tree.
In 1978, two experts, Wendell Flint and Mike Law, carefully measured the Adam Tree. They figured out its huge size, calculating its volume to be about 35,017 cubic feet (991.6 m3) and its base to be around 95 feet (29.0 m) around.
For a while, the Adam Tree was thought to be the biggest tree in the Mountain Home Grove. However, in 1985, Wendell Flint, with help from photographer Mike Law, measured another tree nearby. They named it the Genesis tree. They discovered that the Genesis tree was actually even larger than the Adam Tree. Today, there are three trees in the grove that are considered bigger than the Adam Tree: the Genesis, Summit Road, and Euclid trees.
How Big is the Adam Tree?
Here are the amazing measurements of the Adam Tree, taken by Wendell D. Flint:
| Metres | Feet | |
|---|---|---|
| Height above base | 75.4 | 247.4 |
| Circumference at ground | 28.71 | 94.2 |
| Diameter 5 ft (1.5 m) above ground | 7.01 | 23.0 |
| Diameter 60 ft (18.3 m) above ground | 4.94 | 16.2 |
| Diameter 120 ft (36.6 m) above ground | 4.15 | 13.6 |
| Diameter 180 ft (54.9 m) above ground | 2.13 | 7.0 |
| Estimated volume (m³.ft³) | 991.6 | 35,017 |
