The President Tree is one of the three largest trees measured by volume in the world. It is a runner-up to the General Sherman and General Grant giant sequoias. The size, volume, and age have been confirmed by Steve Sillet, a research scientist at Humboldt State University. It is as tall as many of its mighty relatives, but it turns out to be way more massive than the others.

The wondrous architecture of the President Tree is darkened by lightning strikes that hit the very tip of it, but the tree still stands at a whopping 247 feet tall. The President’s colossal branches jut out from halfway up and hold millions of leaves; compared to its bigger counterpart, General Sherman, the President still retains a much healthier and fuller crown. Furthermore, its trunk has been measured to be 45,000 cubic feet, while 9,000 cubic feet add to the overall weight, thanks to its branches.

The tree can be seen in the Giant Forest of Sequoia National Park, east of Visalia, California, and it picked up its name after President Warren G. Harding in 1923. A number of other trees around it followed a similar fashion of obtaining names.

The President remains one of the most outstanding representatives of its kind. That is not only due to its age of more than three millennia, but also because it gains approximately one cubic meter of volume each year, and by that it retains the status as one of the fastest-growing trees on the planet.

According to en.wikipedia and thevintagenews.com