Ciprés Moctezuma cerca del church of Santa María de la Asunción, Santa María del Tule, México

The 58 metre claim was obtained by pushing the tape in and out of every crack and crevice. A very dishonest way to measure it!

Thank you!

Jeroen Phillipona wrote (in dutch): The plate next to the tree says 58 metres. An American tree-expert Robert van Pelt has measured 36.2 metres in 2005. van Pelt measured a height of 35.4 metres. Next to that he gave an interesting link with some more information. http://www.conifers.org/cu/Taxodium_mucronatum.php

It is almost as if the 30 meters you can quote are not enough for this tree because as the official biggest tree in the world its trunk had a circumference of way more than 35 meters up to 46 - all these different informations are very confusing - do you have trustworthy numbers?