The Giant Sequoia of the Pré Catelan

The city planted this tree in 1872, when giant sequoias were still a novelty in Europe, and it has had a century and a half to grow; of the trees the city lists in this garden, it is the tallest. Paris lists it among its remarkable trees for its size and the mark it leaves on the landscape: its register gives a trunk 645 centimetres round and a height of 36 metres, its printed fact sheet 634 and 32. A reader on r/paris who pointed us to it remembered the year as 1876. The city's own figure is 1872, and that is the one we give. The species comes from the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada in California, where it is a tree of fire. Its bark, as the city's sheet puts it, can grow tens of centimetres thick and does not burn, shielding the living wood inside, and its cones need heat to release their seed. In a Paris garden it gets neither the fire nor the company, and grows anyway. The Pré Catelan is a garden inside the Bois de Boulogne, with lawns, old trees and a Shakespeare garden, and entry is free. Twenty-four metres from the sequoia the register also lists a persimmon planted in 1897. The same reader mentioned a copper beech of over two hundred years in the garden; if you know which one, tell us.