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Tim Bekaert is the administrator of MonumentalTrees.com, a community website listing tens of thousands of photos, girth and height measurements for noteworthy trees, as well as location details of often otherwise undocumented remarkable specimens around the world.

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Greatest tree girth

The living tree with the greatest circumference (girth) is that belonging to El Árbol del Tule in Santa María del Tule, Oaxaca, Mexico. When measured by tree expert Robert Van Pelt in 2005, this Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum) was 35.4 metres (116 feet) tall with a trunk girth of approximately 36.2 metres (118 feet). The width of the crown was approximately 43.2 metres (141 feet).