Thousands of people came through Albert Hall and City Park on the weekend for flower and garden festival Blooming Tasmania.
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There were five talks on Sunday including one from horticulturalist Marcus Ragus, on 10 significant Tasmanian trees.
He said he wouldn’t be surprised if a Tasmanian hardwood, many of which are unmeasured, turned out to be the world’s biggest.
“One of the trees I talked about are the gigantic trees mentioned in 1829 that were found on the North Coast near Emu River,” he said.
“One of them they could quite accurately figure out its height because it had already fallen over – or had been cut down – and that tree was over 121 metres high. If you look at today, the tallest recorded living tree is a California redwood, and that’s 116 metres high.”
The Blooming Tasmania open gardens and bird trails run until September 30.