Drumroll please: The world’s Tallest Tropical Tree is found in Sabah

Drumroll please: The world’s Tallest Tropical Tree is found in Sabah

It stands at 89.5 meters tall in Sabah’s Maliau Basin Conservation Area. That height makes this Yellow Meranti (Shorea faguetiana) – a species endemic to Borneo, peninsular Malaysia and parts of Thailand – probably the tallest tree in the tropics anywhere in the world, according to conservation scientists from Cambridge…