Sequoia General Grant, California, United States

The giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum)

The forests of Giant sequoias have several million years. Their origin would go back at the Ice Age when they lived in Alaska.

There was then a primary forest which extended through Asia, Europe and North America.

Currently, some Sequoiadendron giganteum and sempervirens of California and the few enclaves of bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) and Metasequoias glyptostroboides of China are the only vestiges of this last world.

The Sequoia "General Grant" will have 2700 years old.