After Decade-Long Hunt, Scientists Find #EastAsia’s Tallest Tree https://www.sci.news/biology/heaven-sword-tree-14824.html The journey of finding the tallest #tree in Formosa #Taiwan: Rebecca Chia-Chun Hsu et al. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/forests-and-global-change/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2026.1746112/full "Deep in the #mountains of northern Taiwan, a towering Taiwania cryptomerioides—a large coniferous tree in the cypress family—has been confirmed as the tallest known tree in East Asia... Nicknamed the Heaven Sword, the tree stands 84.1 m tall in the Sheshan range." #trees #plants