I bought a book about Baobab trees where I learned about a cypress called "El Árbol del Tule", with a circumference of 119 feet it is the stoutest tree known. I have seen circular retaining walls with diameters of about 30 feet, which is roughly equivalent to the largest trees. I like the way that circular walls continually reveal their outer horizon as you walk around them. It would be interesting to build such a wall, all the better to imagine the mass of a tree capable of filling it!
At Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado springs I stepped into a replica of a baobab tree.
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