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 ...

A small fire has destroyed an ancient coastal redwood trees at ... hollowed out by previous wildfires but its root system was held up by younger redwoods. “State Parks is devastated by the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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