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giant sequoia genus and species description
... Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron) Needles are scale-like with short, thick, sharp points. Cones are woody, egg-shaped, extremely hard, and 2-3" long. Bark is reddish-brown, stringy, and very thick. Giant sequoias ... are older). Although once widespread, giant sequoias now occur only in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of central California. Since 1890, giant sequoias have been protected in Yosemite, Kings ...
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Trees of Reed: Map 8
... and redcedars form a circle around the outside. The largest trees are the four giant sequoias in the southeast corner. Use the red tabs to move to nearby maps. # ... 50 Pinus contorta Coast Pine 51 Sequoiadendron giganteum Giant Sequoia 52 Sequoiadendron giganteum Giant Sequoia 53 Sequoiadendron giganteum Giant Sequoia 54 Sequoiadendron giganteum Giant Sequoia 55 Acer macrophyllum Bigleaf Maple 56 ...
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Trees of Reed: Map 17
... 17 Map 17 This area to the east of Eliot Circle includes two large, old giant sequoias that were planted by a group of student workers in January of 1937. The trees ... tulipifera Tulip Tree 4 Liriodendron tulipifera Tulip Tree # Scientific Name Common Name 5 Sequoiadendron giganteum Giant Sequoia 6 Pinus sylvestris Scotch Pine 7 Umbellularia californica California Bay / Oregon Myrtle 8 Chamaecyparis ...
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Floridata: Sequoiadendron giganteum
... giant sequoias are closer to 300 ft (91.4 m) tall, and some California redwoods and coast Douglas-firs (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii), although not as massive as giant sequoias, are even taller. Location Giant ... giant sequoias with trunk diameters exceeding 20 ft (6.1 m) and heights exceeding 275 ft (83.8 m). These are truly majestic cathedrals that only God could make! Culture Giant sequoias ...
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Book recommendation 'Sierra Nevada: The Naturalist's Companion.'
... their associated fauna, and highlights the characteristic trees. Through her, we encounter the giant sequoias and the sugar pines, the incense cedars and the red firs, as well ... soaring above California black oak (Quercus kelloggii) and incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens). Chapter 3: Giant sequoias. The Sierran big tree (Sequoiadendron giganteum) remains in groves scattered along the Sierra Nevada ...
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Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron Giganteum) - Ancient Tree of California.
... by Dwight Willard - a well-illustrated introduction to Sequoia groves of the Sierra Nevada. Giant Sequoia Topics: Description. FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions). Links. Books. Deforesting the Earth: From ... . Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron Giganteum): Description. Leaves: Blue-green. Small, overlapping, and pointed sharply. Typically 0.1 inch (0.3 cm) to 0.2 inch (0.5 cm) long. Giant Sequoias are ...
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Wallace W Hansen Native Plants of the Northwest Sequoia sempervirens Coast Redwood Catalog
... limit fire damage. With very shallow root systems, 95% of the sequoias have roots no deeper than 3 meters. This explains why ... of ever-warmer summers and cooler winters have almost decimated the giant sequoia and their cousins, the coast redwood of northern California ... his people to read and write their own language. The giant sequoias, or Ancient Ones, are highly significant in the community and ...
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Wallace W Hansen Native Plants of the Northwest Sequoiadendron gigenteum Giant Sequoia Catalog
... limit fire damage. With very shallow root systems, 95% of the sequoias have roots no deeper than 3 meters. This explains why ... federal protection of the "forgotten" half of the Giant Sequoia ecosystem in a Giant Sequoia National Monument. This action was meant to ensure ... his people to read and write their own language. The giant sequoias, or Ancient Ones, are highly significant in the community and ...
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WyrdAndWonderful
... Great Web, whose strands we cannot always see. The Giant Sequoias The coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) are the tallest trees ... human development and our timber-hungry society. All the Sequoias have been named after a First Nation American called Sequoiah ... also used to describe two other species of giant trees: "The Big Tree" or "Giant Sequoia" (Sequiadendron giganteum), also known by the names ...
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Cycad Evolution: "Modern" Coal Plants
... ferns) or by naked seeds (like conifers). Some of these, like the tree ferns, giant horsetails and cycads, had reached their climax and virtually disappeared; many others, like the ... . As far north as Greenland and Spitzbergen there were mixed forests of ginkgos, conifers -- sequoias, junipers, pines and cypress -- and hardwoods including maples, oaks, walnuts, persimmons, sycamores, tulip trees, ...
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