9. Sitka Spruce
As we climb higher up the list of the world’s most massive living monuments, we’ll find that a lot of these trees start to have more common names they go by instead of just their scientific name along with a slew of funky monikers. The sitka spruce happens to be the tree’s common name, while its scientific name is picea sitchensis. And the names don’t seem to stop there.Many of the world’s largest documented trees seem to have specific names given to them and are measured regularly. The biggest sitka spruce has been named “Queets Spruce”, and she lives in the Olympic National Park located in the state of Washington. Standing at 248 feet tall with a diameter of just under 15 feet, Queets Spruce has a total volume of 11,920 cubic feet.
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