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NNadir

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5. An interesting feature of the biology of giant seqoiuas is that they require...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Thu Jun 26, 2025, 08:01 AM

Jun 26

...heat treatment of the seeds, usually provided by fire, to germinate, an evolutionary advance that allows them less interfering shade of competitor plants. They grow rather slowly for the first hundred years or so, but take off in later centuries.

We have a sequoia in New Jersey at Marquand Park in Princeton. I assume it's old, since it's rather large, but nothing quite like what one sees in California's national parks.

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Giant Sequoias Are Taking Root in an Unexpected Place: Detroit [View all] Judi Lynn Jun 26 OP

... Demovictory9 Jun 26 #1

There are many giant sequoias in Britain spinbaby Jun 26 #2

So glad you posted! Never have heard about it! Wonderful news. Judi Lynn Jun 26 #3

I hope that they are planting them at least 300 feet from any houses. markodochartaigh Jun 26 #4

Wow! There probably aren't a lot of neighborhoods with sequoias! Judi Lynn Jun 26 #8

An interesting feature of the biology of giant seqoiuas is that they require... NNadir Jun 26 #5

They are powerful even as seeds! Amazing to learn about their beginning. Judi Lynn Jun 26 #6

Actually when I looked this up I realized that... NNadir Jun 26 #7

I think lodgepole and jack pines also have to have fire to reproduce . . . hatrack Jun 27 #9

As the planet is burning we may have a lot of saplings growing in the ashes. NNadir Jun 27 #10