The world's tallest tropical tree has been discovered at the heart of the Malaysian Island of Borneo, in the state of Sabah. In June 2016, a team of scientists had already announced they had found the tallest tropical tree on our planet. On 10 November 2016, Gregory Asner of the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University announced that not only had he found more impressive, 94.1m tall, tropical tree but he had also identified 49 trees with a greater height than the yellow meranti discovered five months ago – all exceed the 90m mark.