Sciadopitys verticillata -- how big notable BC & PNW trees ?

Anybody know what's out there in the PNW or B.C. area for notable Sciadopitys verticillata trees?

I was talking to someone about drainage in his yard today and noticed a Sciadopitys verticillata that I'm guesstimating to be close to 40 feet tall with a circumference of 44 inches. Never seen one that size before in Beaverton or various parts of Portland.

It looks like Portland has two on their heritage tree list near NW Cornell, close to 30 feet tall and slightly wider trunks.

Sort of entertaining to see one with cones on it for a change.

Thanks for the feedback.

 

For comparison, the UK champion (at Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland) is 24 metres tall.

In Japan, from the Gymnosperm Database:

Can't be many trees with over 700 years of recorded history.

 

See listings in Van Pelt, Champion Trees of Washington State (UW, 1996) and Jacobson, Trees of Seattle - Second Edition (2006).

These are two books you should have if you are going to be wondering about things like this. Jacobson mentions that Seattle's first designated heritage tree was a Sciadopitys.

As I remember it an example near the north end of Vashon Island was figured to be over 90' tall - before it disappeared.

I often see these trees with cones here, sometimes quite a number of cones.

 

Interesting that you used the word "disappeared".

Because I mentioned to this property owner that what's more surprising than this tree's size, is the fact that it's still there.

Home is probably only 15 years old, in a sub-division. Amazing that the tree did not "disappear" since most people probably didn't know it from a small Douglas fir or Hawthorn.