See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_trees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_trees I hadn't heard of the second and third tallest

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_trees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_trees I hadn't heard of the second and third tallest species, South Tibetan cypress and Yellow meranti. There are also far more very tall eucalyptus species than I expected. Unfortunately these are just the tallest current trees, and there are records (some believable, some dubious) of much taller trees in the relatively recent past: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superlative_trees#Tallest_historically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_superlative_trees#Tall...