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Superlative Trees

Widest Tree Trunk

The Santa Maria del Tule, a Montezuma Cypress in Santa Maria del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico, has the widest tree trunk in the world. The town is named after the tree, which is approximately 37 feet 6 inches in diameter, approximately 141 feet tall, and over 2000 years old.

At one time, in the late 18th century, the world’s greatest recorded tree circumference was a European Chestnut known as the “Tree of the Hundred Horses,” located on Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy. At that time it had a circumference of almost 190 feet. Since then, it has separated into three trees.