November 22, 2006

Sequoia

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Sequoias are huge coniferous evergreen trees that belong to the cypress family. They probably originated over 100 million years ago and were once widespread in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere but were almost exterminated by the ice sheets of the glacial ages. Today, the two living species survive only in a narrow strip near the Pacific coast of the US. How high does the redwood variety, which is probably the tallest tree in the world, grow?
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