{"id":1078,"date":"2018-08-02T17:19:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T17:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2018-08-02T17:19:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T17:19:52","slug":"coast-redwood-tapers-but-not-giant-sequoia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/2018\/08\/02\/coast-redwood-tapers-but-not-giant-sequoia\/","title":{"rendered":"Coast redwood tapers, but not giant sequoia ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years, I’ve read numerous descriptions comparing trunks,\u00a0 claiming coast redwoods taper and giant sequoias don’t.\u00a0Did those people just drive by without looking, and went on their merry way? The truth is that coast redwood and giant sequoia both have trunks that taper; and both have trunks that\u00a0don’t (or barely) taper. I’ll give an easy example to compare for giant sequoia. Do an image search with keywords “congress + trail + senate + giant + sequoia”<\/strong>.\u00a0Find the photos and notice the obvious trunk taper of the Senate cluster. I suggested that one because a good number of photographers don’t tilt their\u00a0lens upward which\u00a0changes taper.\u00a0 Plenty of the Senate photos are taken level or straight on.<\/p>\n

Now compare those images and similar to this coast redwood.\u00a0 This photo was taken aimed level to prevent taper distortion. I don’t think this trunk has any taper at all. It may even have some reverse taper. Continue after image …<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Nitro Express Coast Redwood<\/p><\/div>\n

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There are people near the base for scale. Aside from lower flare near the roots, lack of taper is obvious. The next image shows a couple of coast redwood trunks. A big one to the left with taper and a medium trunk to the right with minimal taper. Chris can be spotted in a green shirt for scale. Continue\u00a0after image …<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Coast Redwood Trunks<\/p><\/div>\n

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Likewise, the giant sequoias in the mountains have plenty of trunks with taper and other trunks that barely taper. It’s worth interjecting that zero-taper and reverse-taper trunks are not very common but the ones I’ve seen\u00a0are\u00a0in the coast redwoods. When both species are planted in large landscapes or parks, the coast redwoods often have the least taper, and giant sequoias typically develop the most taper.<\/p>\n

On a closing note. this week’s redwood page update was Hyperion, one of the tallest known. For those interested, take a moment to review Hyperion Coast Redwood 380′<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the years, I’ve read numerous descriptions comparing trunks,\u00a0 claiming coast redwoods taper and giant sequoias don’t.\u00a0Did those people just drive by without looking, and went on their merry way? The truth is that coast redwood and giant sequoia both have trunks that taper; and both have trunks that\u00a0don’t (or barely) taper. I’ll give an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,104,1],"tags":[105,108,109,107,106],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coast-redwood","category-trunks","category-uncategorized","tag-coast-redwood","tag-giant-sequoia","tag-growth","tag-taper","tag-trunks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}