a 2 year old girl stood in front of a grove of 110 year old californian coastal redwoods at whakarewarewa forest near rotorua in june 2010 to provide perspective and scale of the backdrop. the redwoods, botanically known as sequoai sempervirens were first planted in 1901. currently the largest redwood in whakarewarewa is approximately 67m tall and 169cm in diameter.

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