Redwood

A huge red trunk soaring bare to small dark cones of needles high up. The tallest tree of the wild woods.

About 20 m tall out in the open. In the old forests it towers far higher: most stand two to four times that, the tallest up to nine times, and now and then an old giant stands among the rest.

Where it grows

Land	How many of the trees
Temperate rain forest	Nearly half

Trees of a kind keep together in stands about 60 m across.

Through the year

It keeps its needles all year. Snow lies thicker on its boughs than on the leafy trees.

In play

Its trunk stops men and horses, who go round it. Wildfire leaves it black and bare, and burnt or felled ground grows back over about four years.