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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Petra Stock

Global ‘gigantism’ hotspot: Tasmanian tree standing at almost 100m tallest in the country

Close up of the trunk of a mountain ash tree
A Eucalyptus regnans, or mountain ash, in Tasmania. Photograph: crbellette/Getty Images

Australian researchers have documented the tallest and most massive living trees in Tasmania, a “global hotspot of gigantism in plants”, including 18 examples over 90 metres.

Most of the largest and tallest were Eucalyptus regnans, commonly known as mountain ash, including a tree known as “Centurion”, measuring 96 metres, according to new research in the Australian Journal of Botany.

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