Iluvatar is located among a group of trees called Atlas Grove. The location is unpublished. Atlas Grove, including Iluvatar, is a carefully studied area of forest. Measuring Iluvatar required five climbers for over 20 days. Iluvatar has 134 reiterated trunks, more than any except the Redwood Creek Giant. Its first reiterated trunk is 2.6 meters in diameter, the largest reiteration on any redwood. In total, reiterations account for 12.3 percent of its stemwood volume.
Like many old growth redwoods, trunks within the crown are hydraulically linked by fused branches. In addition to allowing for water transfer within the crown, these fusions strengthen the crown of the tree, making it more resilient to wind damage. Iluvatar has 30 such fusions.[2]
^(PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 4, 2015. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
^Preston, Richard (2007). The Wild Trees: A Story Of Passion And Daring. Allen Lane Publishers. page 82.
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Orion Article: Day of Discovery - Excerpted from The Wild Trees by Richard Preston 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
Photograph Documentation and Photographs including 'Iluvatar' redwood
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iluvatar, tree, iluvatar, redwood, tree, prairie, creek, redwoods, state, park, northern, california, that, been, confirmed, least, feet, diameter, breast, height, feet, height, measured, botanist, stephen, sillett, world, third, largest, coast, redwood, large. Iluvatar is a redwood tree in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in Northern California that has been confirmed to be at least 20 5 feet 6 2 m in diameter at breast height and 320 feet 98 m in height Measured by botanist Stephen C Sillett it is the world s third largest coast redwood the largest being Lost Monarch 1 IluvatarArborist M D Vaden next to the coastal redwood Iluvatar in 2008 The groundcover plants are western sword fern and redwood sorrel SpeciesCoast redwood Sequoia sempervirens Height97 54 m 320 0 ft Diameter6 25 m 20 5 ft Volume of trunk1 102 7 m3 38 940 cu ft Iluvatar is located among a group of trees called Atlas Grove The location is unpublished Atlas Grove including Iluvatar is a carefully studied area of forest Measuring Iluvatar required five climbers for over 20 days Iluvatar has 134 reiterated trunks more than any except the Redwood Creek Giant Its first reiterated trunk is 2 6 meters in diameter the largest reiteration on any redwood In total reiterations account for 12 3 percent of its stemwood volume Like many old growth redwoods trunks within the crown are hydraulically linked by fused branches In addition to allowing for water transfer within the crown these fusions strengthen the crown of the tree making it more resilient to wind damage Iluvatar has 30 such fusions 2 This redwood tree was named by Sillett after Eru Iluvatar the creator of the universe in J R R Tolkien s legendarium in which his novels The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion take place The Atlas Grove with Iluvatar is said by author Richard Preston to have been discovered by naturalist Michael Taylor in 1991 3 This coastal redwood is surrounded by other old coastal redwoods including Atlas Tree Gaia Pleiades Ballantine Prometheus Bell Zeus and others Ballantine was named after a real man Some were named after ancient Greek gods Neighboring species include Pseudotsuga menziesii Picea sitchensis Acer macrophyllum Rhamnus purshiana Umbellularia californica Tsuga heterophylla Chamaecyparis lawsoniana and Lithocarpus densiflorus See also editList of individual treesReferences edit Gymnosperm Database A redwood tree whose crown may be the most complex on Earth PDF Archived from the original PDF on May 4 2015 Retrieved February 15 2017 Preston Richard 2007 The Wild Trees A Story Of Passion And Daring Allen Lane Publishers page 82 External links editOrion Article Day of Discovery Excerpted from The Wild Trees by Richard Preston Archived 2008 05 09 at the Wayback Machine Photograph Documentation and Photographs including Iluvatar redwood Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Iluvatar tree amp oldid 1134565737, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
