<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>The giant Sequoia (<em>Sequoiadendron giganteum</em>)</strong><br /><br />The forests of Giant sequoias have several million years. Their origin would go back at the Ice Age when they lived in Alaska. <br /><br />There was then a primary forest which extended through Asia, Europe and North America. <br /><br />Currently, some Sequoiadendron giganteum and sempervirens of California and the few enclaves of bald Cypress (Taxodium distichum) and Metasequoias glyptostroboides of China are the only vestiges of this last world.<br /><br />The Sequoia "General Grant" will have 2700 years old.</span></span></p>