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This is an alerce tree similar to the sequoia trees in the Norther hemisphere in such they are the giants of the forests both by hight and width and by age. The alerces trees are considered endangered right now. The widest living alerce at the moment has 4.6m trunk and just 150 years ago Charles Darwin reported an alerce with 12.4m diameter trunk.

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