A woman admires the enormous size of a Sequoia tree in the 1950s. Giant Sequoias are a type of redwood that grows in the high-altitude Sierra Nevada mountains of California. While many of them can grow to be as massive as the one shown in the photo, in this particular case, it appears as if two trees fused together.
Coast redwoods, on the other hand, are the tallest trees in the world, typically growing closer to the ocean at much lower altitudes. Although their diameter isn’t as wide as Sequoias, they have the potential to reach heights of nearly 400 feet.
California is also home to bristlecone pines, some of the longest-living trees globally. While they are much smaller in size, they grow very slowly, and some are even older than the pyramids in Egypt.
