Coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens ... It can be buried by mud slides or river silt up to 30 feet and just grow a new root system. Redwoods can be topped, particularly if the tree is small ...

Coast redwoods are found only in a short and narrow ... They manage to stay standing by extending their shallow root system to a diameter of 50 feet or more, and tangling the roots into grooves ...

The redwoods' great age and immense height — coast redwoods ... how albino redwoods take advantage of their shared root system by siphoning off sugars produced by their healthy neighbors.

The established root system of the original tree helps the ... of Save the Redwoods’ work — to double the size of coastal redwood forests in parks and reserves in the state to 800,000 acres ...

A: I am assuming that you are talking about the coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens, as these are the trees that are commonly sold at big box stores. Redwood trees have shallow root systems that ...

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Sequoia sempervirens, the coastal redwood, is one of the most beloved ... their trunks and buttress root mounds lifting walkways and other infrastructure and their roots invading drain lines.

These are outgrowths of the tree root systems when the trees ... from Save The Redwoods League: A natural coast redwood forest is a perfect recycling system. The soil, like that in any high ...

The area around Hyperion, a massive coast redwood known for being the ... having an impact on the vegetation and potentially the root system of the very tree that people are going there to visit ...