Following are the trees with the thickest bark in the world
Species and Family | Where native? | Greatest thickness or depth. | |
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Giant Sequoia, or Big Tree. (Sequoiadendron giganteum) Taxodiaceae. | Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. | The greatest thickness which has been reliably measured is 2.5 feet (76.2 cm) for one in Redwood Canyon, Kings Canyon National Park. | |
Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) Taxodiaceae. | Coastal Northern and Central California and extreme southern Oregon. | The “Mill Creek Giant” near the Mill Creek bridge in Redwood National Park, Crescent City, California has bark eighteen inches (45.7 centimeters) thick. | |
Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) (Pinaceae) | Northwestern North America. | A tree felled in North Vancouver, British Columbia in 1902 had bark 13.5 inches (34.3 centimeters) in thickness. | |
Cork Oak (Quercus suber) Fagaceae | circum-Mediterranean distribution. | One Cork Oak at the chapel of Sao Goncalo ten miles (16 kilometers) south of Lisbon, Portugal had cork measuring eight inches (20 cm) deep. | |
Bangalay (Eucalyptus botryoides) Myrtaceae. | Victoria and New South Wales, Australia. | In 1973, one Bangalay in Alameda Park, Santa Barbara, California had bark fissured to a depth of seven inches (17.8 cm) with again an unknown depth of unfissured bark below that. | |
Parana Pine (Araucaria angustifolia) Araucariaceae. | Mostly in southernmost Brazil. | Bark can be over six inches (“more than 15 centimeters”) thick. | |
Renala (Adansonia grandidieri) Bombacaceae. | Madagascar. | Bark is up to six inches (fifteen centimeters) thick. | |
Valley Oak (Quercus lobata) Fagaceae. | Central Valley of California southward to the San Gabriel Valley. | This bark also up to six inches (i5 cm) in thickness. | |
Nolina longifolia Agavaceae | Mexico | One plant at the Huntington Library, Galleries and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California in 1996 had bark with fissures up to 4.75 inches ( 12.1 centimeters) deep. |