Lost Monarch is a coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) tree in Northern California that is in diameter at breast height (with multiple stems included),Van Pelt, Robert (2001) Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast, University of Washington Press, Seattle. and in height. It is the world's fifth largest coast redwood in terms of wood volume (the Del Norte Titan was listed as the largest single-stem coast redwood tree, in part because the basal measurements of the Lost Monarch contain multiple stems).Earle, Christopher J., Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don) Endlicher 1847, Gymnosperm Database, 2013, accessed July 2, 2013
Discovery and location Lost Monarch was discovered on May 11, 1998, by botanist Stephen C. Sillett, and naturalist Michael Taylor, and is located among other giant redwoods called "The Grove of Titans" in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, although its exact location has not been revealed to the public out of concern that excessive human foot traffic may upset the ecosystem or lead to vandalism.Vaden, Mario D., Some redwoods are secret, 2013, accessed July 2, 2013 The tree is estimated to contain of wood volume, and is surrounded by other coastal redwoods known as some of the largest of the species. Of the surrounding redwood trees, some have names from the discoverers, such as El Viejo del Norte, Screaming Titans, Eärendil and Elwing, Stalagmight, and others.
Epiphytes Lost Monarch supports and provides a habitat for epiphytes including Polypodium scouleri. One report from 2003 estimated that Lost Monarch held about of P. scouleri fern mat material.Williams, Cameron B. and Stephen C. Sillett, Epiphyte communities on redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) in northwestern California, The Bryologist, Volume 110, Number 3, pages 420-452. 2007, accessed July 2, 2012
See also List of individual trees
References
External links Orion Article: Day of Discovery - Excerpt from The Wild Trees by Richard Preston