Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Lightning struck tree, 0 by Resin

Resin wrote:
It could have been so much worse . . .

Translation of the label placed in front of the trunk

"On the 6th of October 1993 around 10h15, in one fraction of a second, 40 cubic metres of wood were blown to pieces : the lightning killed a giant tree planted around 1870. Some pieces were sent to more than 300 metres away into the property of the US Embassy, origin country of this tree.

Species : Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindley) J. Buchholz
Circumference of the trunk : 8 metres at 1 m height from the ground
Total height : 30 metres

From the family of the Taxodiaceae, the Giant Sequoia is the most imposing of all conifers. It is to be found in many parks in Geneva, but it will never have the opportunity to live the incredible adventure of more than 3,400 years which some specimens of the Sierra Nevada (California) have experienced. It was the fashion tree as early as 1850, like the Cedar of Lebanon was 30 years before."