This post has been updated on Feb. 25, 2023
In March 2015, while I was roaming through the Google Street View of Thailand, I came across this large, wide tree in Kanchanaburi.
Image Source:
Google Street View
The Google Earth imagery of that time showed a canopy diameter of about 57.9 metres (190 ft.)
Image Source: Google Earth
The large, wide tree located on the Thai Army cavalry grounds in Kanchanaburi, Thailand is known as Albizia saman, or the Rain Tree or Monkey Pod tree. It has a canopy diameter of approximately 60.4 metres (198 feet), a trunk girth (diameter) of 9.15 metres (30 feet), and stands 20 metres (65.6 feet) tall. The tree's canopy covers an area of approximately 2,416 square metres (0.6 acres or 26,000 square feet). The tree is over 100 years old, and its trunk has a circumference of about 17.7 metres (57.5 feet), so large that at least 10 people are needed to embrace it fully. It is a popular tourist attraction.
It may be worthwhile to note there are few wide trees which are bigger in circumference than this tree, however all these are clonal trees and cannot be considered as the Widest Non-Clonal Tree in The World.
I am therefore of the firm opinion that this tree in
Kanchanaburi, Thailand is World's Widest Non-Clonal
Tree. I request my readers to negate/confirm this. This premise has since been confirmed as this tree was included in 2018 in the Guinness World Records.
Image from
Google Maps is by
Yps Yps
Image from
Wikimedia Commons is by
Chainwit.
Image from
Finding The Universe
is copyright ©
Laurence and Jessica.
Permission to use image is thankfully acknowledged.
0 comments:
Post a Comment