Centurion: World's Tallest Eucalyptus Tree Found

Tallest Eucalyptus discovered in Tasmania: Eucalyptus regnans

Forestry Tasmania reports a 101 meter height and 4 meter diameter monster Eucalyptus found near the Tahune Airwalk, 75 km away from Hobart.

David Mannes besides Centurion, world's tallest Eucalyptus (Image courtesy of The Mercury, the voice of Tasmania)

We woke up today at EUCALYPTOLOGICS with big tree news. Centurion, as the newly discovered giant Mountain Ash (Eucalyptus regnans) has been named, joins the Tallest Known Alive Tree Club (which includes champions as Hyperion & the Stratosphere Giant, famous Californian coast redwoods) as the tallest known alive hardwood and the tallest known alive Eucalyptus, surpassing another King Regnans in Tasmania, Icarus Dream, which reaches 97 m high.

Click to watch a video of Centurion (courtesy ABC News, Australia)

After measuring Centurion using LiDAR laser and ground methods, Forestry Tasmania officers Mayo Kajitani & David Mannes located another neighbour giant eucalypt reaching 87.5 m high, which was named Triarius.

Centurion & Triarius will also join celebritrees as Icarus Dream, Damocles, Gothmog, Gandalf's Staff or the White Knight in Australia's Giant Tree Club (www.gianttrees.com.au), examples of Tasmania's world heritage to preserve and admire.

Walk among giants at Forestry Tasmania's Tahune Airwalk!

Watch Nick Duigan & Andrew Hart "Going Bush" beyond the Tahune Airwalk to meet the tallest known standing true flowering plant in the World... amidst the tall wet eucalypt forests of Tasmania... and show you dendrologists Tom Greenwood & Brett Mifsud preparing for a Giant Tree Climb: the ascent to and measurement of The Centurion, the tallest known standing eucalypt at 99.6 meters height, discovered by Forestry Tasmania's forester David Mannes back in 2008... Eucalyptus regnans, King of Eucalypt Trees! (Click play to watch the video, courtesy of Forestry Tasmania)

And do not forget to also watch Sir David Attenborough's video with King Regnans!

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