X-Message-Number: 9677
Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 11:44:27 -0700
From: Rand Simberg <>
Subject: (OT) Sequoiae are Redwoods

Thomas Donaldson wrote:

>I did correct myself on one point: the trees were sequoias, not redwoods. 

Not that it matters, and I'm not a botanist, but just so that no one is
further misinformed on this unrelated subject, sequoias *are* redwoods.
The former is the scientific term for the family, and the latter is the
popular term.  I think that what Thomas really means is that they were the
species sequoia gigantea <sp?> (the giant sequoiae that take hundreds of
years to mature) rather than sequoia sempervirens, or the much more
abundant coastal redwood, which grow relatively quickly--more like other
conifers.

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