Which is the world's largest tree?

general Sherman is a Sequoia

As others noted 4 years ago and it still hasn't been corrected, General Sherman is a giant sequoia - poor adminstration on this app

Fun guy, The General Sherman Tree was named after the American Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman. The official story, which may be apocryphal, claims the tree was named in 1879 by naturalist James Wolverton, who had served as a lieutenant in the 9th Indiana Cavalry under Sherman. If you just say sequoia (or giant sequoia), it means that The General Sherman tree is as tall as the other one. We go by their "names"

Yeh ! Generala Sherman is a tree of the species Giant Sequ

General Sherman is a Giant Sequoia, but not the biggest