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9 unusual facts about Sequoia sempervirens


Canoga Park High School

Among the school's features are a Coast Redwood grove planted in 1936 just north of the football field.

Disney's Sequoia Lodge

Surrounding the hotel are thousands of trees which were imported from the West Coasts of the United States and Canada, among with hundreds of Sequoias.

Finkbine-Guild Lumber Company

When the local timber supply dwindled, the company tried to utilize redwood trees from California, but that operation failed because of high transportation costs.

As their timberlands were being exhausted in Mississippi, the Finkbine-Guild Lumber Company planned to keep their Mississippi mills as re-manufacturing and finishing plants and feed them with California redwood.

John P. Crozer II Mansion

It was built in 1879-1880, and is a three-story mansion house built entirely of California redwood.

Nevile Wilkinson

To celebrate their births, two redwood trees were planted opposite the entrance to the Church of St Therese.

Paternal mtDNA transmission

Some Conifers also show paternal inheritance of mitochondria, such as the coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.

Richard Preston

His climbing experience likely led him to write about the largest known redwoods like Lost Monarch in the Grove of Titans, or Iluvatar, described in that book along with delicate forest canopy ecosystems.

The Redwoods

It was produced for the Sierra Club as part of their campaign for a national park to protect the redwood forest.


Château de la Guignardière

He transformed the gardens, and planted numerous exotic trees, including Magnolia, Swamp Cypress, Zelkova and California Redwood.

Hall Place

Specimen trees in the grounds include an Indian Bean Tree (Catalpa bignonioides), a Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), and a Black Poplar (Populus nigra) - planted to commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012 by the local Mayor and the Deputy Lieutenant Of Bexley.

Mountainhood

Michael Curtis Hilde first began writing and recording while living in the Big Sur redwoods.

Pialligo, Australian Capital Territory

Aside from the city's design, arguably Walter Burley Griffin's longest-living legacy in Canberra is the forest of Redwood trees (both Sequoia sempervirens and Sequoiadendron giganteum) that was planted in 1918 by Walter Burley Griffin and arborist Thomas Charles Weston on Pialligo Avenue.

Polipoli Spring State Recreation Area

When the park was established, it was devoid of trees and was subsequently reforested in the 1930s with pines, eucalyptus, tropical ash, cypress, China-fir, and coast redwood.

Recreational Forest Reserve of Fontinhas

The main feature of the park is its rich forest of tall species; a dense forest, its atmosphere populated by Cryptomeria, Sequoia, Picconia azorica and the local Azorean Heather, its paths lined with Azaleas (Rhododendron), tree ferns (Sphaeropteris cooperii), Agapanthus and Camelias (Camelia japonica).

The Wild Trees

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring is a non-fiction book by Richard Preston about California's coastal redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) and the recreational climbers who climbed them.

Tree house

Julia Butterfly Hill is a particularly well known tree sitter who occupied a Californian Redwood for 738 days, saving the tree and others in the immediate area.

Trochetiopsis erythroxylon

Saint Helena redwood is completely unrelated to the redwood tree of California and other trees called redwood.

Wrights, California

Matty became a member of the Santa Clara Valley Pioneer Association, and later joined the Sempervirens Club, a conservation organization devoted to saving the redwoods.


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