After Decade-Long Hunt, Scientists Find East Asia’s Tallest Tree

The Heaven Sword tree. Image credit: Chia-Chun Hsu et al., doi: 10.3389/ffgc.2026.1746112.

Deep in the mountains of northern Taiwan, a towering Taiwania cryptomerioides — a large coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae whose ancestors date back 100 million years — has been confirmed as the tallest known tree in East Asia.

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