Tallest trees of the world

Updated on 18th March 2011 Friday 9:45AM

The tallest
Tropical Tree
in the world

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English Name : Dipterocarpus spec
Scientific Name : Shorea faguetiana
Height : 88.33 m
Location : Tawau Hills Park, Sabah

Tawau Hills park has the tallest tropical tree in the world according to the measurements made by American scientists this January 2007.

Lowland tropical rain forests used to cover vast areas in the Amazon region, central Africa, and the Far East. Today this rain forests have been greatly reduced since the dawn of civilization.

More about this Tallest Tree in Malaysia (Also the tallest Tropical Tree in the World)

More about this Tallest Tree in Malaysia

"...the world's tallest documented tropical tree,
"Pokok Gergassi Tawau".
It is an 88.1 m Shorea faguetiana (Dipterocapaceae).... "

photo (by Brett Mifsud) of the world's tallest documented tropical tree, "Pokok Gergassi Tawau". It is an 88.1 m Shorea faguetiana (Dipterocapaceae). Tom Greenwood, Brett Mifsud and I measured it with a tape drop in Sabah, Malaysia September 2005. Pictured are James Aldred on the left and Roman Dial on the right.

The tallest trees we found less than 2 km away in Tawau Hill Park, a 27,000 hectare Sabah State Park that was established in a sea of oil and cocao plantations to protect the water supply there.
Most of it has been selectively logged, but we found a small 1 or 2 hectare patch with 5 trees of four different species that each reached over 80 m. We think there is a 90 m tree in there and **know** there's one very close to that:).........

Tawau has very tall trees and is known to historically have had the tallest trees due to the basalt soils there, which are very rare for Borneo. These soils make Tawau the richest palm oil producing region in Sabah, the state which is the richest oil palm producer in Malaysia, which is apparently the best oil palm producing country in the world.

Roman Dial
Sep 26, 2005 22:33 PDT
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Tallest trees of the world (information a.o. Van Pelt, literature 21 en Giant Trees of Tasmanië)http://82.94.219.20/~jpa/tall%20trees.htm
	English name	Scientific name	Tallest known living	Location
1	Coast Redwood	Sequoia sempervirens	1. 115.55 m (Chris Atkins, Michael Taylor, 26 Augustus 2006, "Hyperion") 2. 114.34 m (Atkins, Taylor, Sillet, Van Pelt, 7 juli 2006, "Helios") 3. 113.11 m (Atkins, Taylor, Sillet, Van Pelt, 7 juli 2006, "Icarus") 4. 112.87 m (Steve Sillet, 2004, "Stratosphere giant")	California, USA
2	Douglas Fir	Pseudotsuga menziesii	100.3 m ("Brummit Fir")	Oregon, USA
3	Eucalyptus: Mountain Ash	Eucalyptus regnans	97 m (Andromeda forest)	Tasmania, Australia
4	Sitka Spruce	Picea sitchensis	96.7 m	Vancouver Island Canada
5	Giant Sequoia	Sequoiadendron giganteum	94.9 m	California,USA
6	Eucalyptus: Blue Gum	Eucalyptus globulus	90.75 m (2005)	Tasmania, Australia
7	Noble fir	Abies procera	89.9 m (91 m?)	Washington, USA
8	Eucalyptus: Manna Gum	Eucalyptus viminalis	89.0 m	Tasmania, Australia
9	Eucalyptus: Alpine Ash	Eucalyptus delegatensis	88.7 m	Tasmania, Australia
10	Dipterocarpus spec	Shorea faguetiana	88.33 m (Roman Dial 2007)	Tawau Hills Park, Gergassi Ridge, Borneo
11	Tualang (also called Tapang and Menggaris)	Koömpassia excelsa (Caesalpiniaceae)	85.76 m (Roman Dial 2007)	Tawau Hills Park, Mengaris Knob, Borneo
12		Eucalyptus diversicolor	85.0 m	West Australia
13	Dipterocarpus spec	Shorea argentifolia	84.85 m (Roman Dial 2007)	Tawau Hills Park, Gaharu Ridge, Borneo
14	Dipterocarpus spec	Shorea superba	84.41 m (Roman Dial 2007)	Tawau Hills Park, Gergassi Ridge, Borneo
15	Eucalyptus: Shining Gum	Eucalyptus nitens	84.4 m	Tasmania, Australia
16	Dipterocarpus spec	Hopea nutans	82.82 m (Roman Dial 2007)	Tawau Hills Park, Gaharu Ridge, Borneo
17	Dipterocarpus spec	Shorea johorensis	82.39 m (Roman Dial 2007)	Tawau Hills Park, Coco Park Boundary, Borneo
18	Dipterocarpus spec	Shorea smithiana	82.27 m (Roman Dial 2007)	Tawau Hills Park, Coco Park Boundary, Borneo
20	Sugar Pine	Pinus lambertiana	81.7 m	Yosimite N.P. California, USA
21	Grand Fir	Abies grandis	81.4 m	Californië,USA
22	Dipterocarpus spec	Shorea gibbosa	81.1 m (Roman Dial,2007)	Tawau Hills Park, River Flats, Borneo
23	Eucalyptus: Karri	Eucalyptus diversicolor	80.5	West Australia
24	Ponderosa Pine	Pinus ponderosa	79.9 m	California, USA
25	Western Hemlock	Tsuga heterophylla	76.2+ m	California,USA
26	Dipterocarpus spec	Dryobalanops aromatica	76.2 m (Al Carder, 2005)	Malaisia
27		Dyera costulata (Apocynacea)	76.2 m (Al Carder, 2005)	Malaisia
28	Eucalyptus	Eucalyptus deglupta	78 m (Al Carder, 2005)	Malaisia
29	Dipterocarpus spec	Parashorea malaanonan	72.8 m	Danum Valley Sabah, Borneo
30	Lawson Cypress	Chamaecyparis lawsoniana	72.5 m	Oregon, USA
31	Nordmann Fir	Abies nordmaniana	68.6 m (mogelijk 78 m)	Kaukasus, Russia
32	Dipterocarpus spec	Shorea leprosula	66.0 m	Danum Valley Sabah, Borneo
33	Dipterocarpus spec	Cotylelobium melanoxylon	64 m	Brunei, Borneo

"...the world's tallest documented tropical tree, "Pokok Gergassi Tawau". It is an 88.1 m Shorea faguetiana (Dipterocapaceae).... "
	photo (by Brett Mifsud) of the world's tallest documented tropical tree, "Pokok Gergassi Tawau". It is an 88.1 m Shorea faguetiana (Dipterocapaceae). Tom Greenwood, Brett Mifsud and I measured it with a tape drop in Sabah, Malaysia September 2005. Pictured are James Aldred on the left and Roman Dial on the right.