Sequoia

Polly pergi ke Mariposa Grove. Tempat itu penuh dengan sequoia raksasa. Mereka adalah pohon terbesar di dunia.

Polly went to Mariposa Grove. It is full of giant sequoias. They are the biggest trees in the world.

Kulit pohon sequoia tidak berwarna cokelat. Warnanya oranye tua. Polly mendarat di sebuah cabang. Dia mematuk kulit pohon dengan paruhnya. Kulitnya lembut. Kulit pohon itu sangat tebal. Kulit tebal melindungi pohon dari api.

Sequoia bark is not brown. It is deep orange. Polly landed on a branch. She pecked the bark with her beak. It was soft. The bark was very thick. The thick bark protects the tree from fire.

Sebuah keluarga berjalan melewati. Seorang gadis kecil berkata, "Lihat, burung beo!" Ayahnya berkata, "Itu mainan." Polly tidak bergerak.

A family walked past. A little girl said, "Look, a parrot!" Her father said, "It is a toy." Polly did not move.

Dia terbang ke atas pohon. Pada ketinggian tiga puluh meter, cabang-cabang mulai muncul. Cabang-cabang itu tebal. Dia hinggap di salah satunya. Puncak pohon masih jauh di atas.

She flew up the tree. At thirty metres up, the branches started. They were thick. She perched on one. The top of the tree was still far above.

Pohon terbesar disebut Grizzly Giant. Usianya sekitar 3.000 tahun. Batangnya lebih lebar dari sebuah bus.

The biggest tree was called the Grizzly Giant. It was about 3,000 years old. Its trunk was wider than a bus.

Polly hinggap di batang pohon. Dia melihat ke atas.

Polly perched on the trunk. She looked up.

Tiga ribu tahun. Pohon itu sudah tua ketika Roma masih sebuah desa kecil.

Three thousand years. The tree was already old when Rome was a small village.

Polly tinggal lama di sana. Ada bekas luka bakar lama di batang pohon. Pohon itu telah bertahan dari banyak kebakaran.

Polly stayed a long time. There was an old fire mark on the trunk. The tree had survived many fires.

Sebuah biji kecil jatuh melewatinya. Biji sequoia membutuhkan api untuk tumbuh. Konusnya hanya terbuka dalam panas. Pohon-pohon baru tumbuh setelah kebakaran.

A small seed fell past her. Sequoia seeds need fire to grow. The cones open only in heat. New trees grow after a burn.