Paper Trees By Yuken Teruya From Japan

The stoutest living single-trunk species in diameter are:
1. African Baobab Adansonia digitata: 15.9 m (52 ft), Glencoe Baobab (measured near the ground), Limpopo Province, South Africa. This tree split up in November 2009 and now the stoutest baobab could be Sunland Baobab (South Africa) with idealised diameter 10.64 m and correct circumference - 33.4 m.
2. Montezuma Cypress Taxodium mucronatum: 11.62 m (38.1 ft), Árbol del Tule, Santa Maria del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico. Note though that this diameter includes buttressing; the actual idealised diameter of the area of its wood is 9.38 m (30.8 ft).
3. Giant Sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum: 8.85 m (29 ft), General Grant tree, General Grant Grove, California, United States