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vinay427 on Dec 2, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: New York City mapped its trees and calculated each...

That's equivalent to about 10.8m. Apparently, there's a giant sequoia that's [EDIT: at max 11.1m], so it's not unfathomable but likely an error as you noted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Sherman_(tree)

bostonpete on Dec 2, 2016 [–]

> Apparently, there's a giant sequoia that's 24.1m wide

I'm not sure where you got that number, but according to the link you provided, the max diameter of General Sherman is 11.1 m

vinay427 on Dec 2, 2016 | [–]

You are correct; I apologize. I misinterpreted girth in the Google result I found as width. I edited my original comment.

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