# Sequoia sempervirens **Domain:** Botany / Longevity / California Ecology **Doc Type:** Canonical Species Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **_Sequoia sempervirens_**, the coast redwood, is an evergreen conifer native to the fog-influenced coastal belt of northern and central California and southwestern Oregon. It includes the tallest living trees and can reproduce both sexually and through vegetative sprouts. ## Continuity Context Redwood persistence complicates the idea of an organism as a single bounded lifetime. Sprouting, clonal continuity, fire response and extreme longevity distribute persistence across trunks, roots and generations. [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] uses [[wiki/El Palo Alto|El Palo Alto]] as a living time-depth marker beside rail and computing infrastructure. The relevance is not that trees are computers, but that biological continuity already includes layered strategies of persistence, replacement and regeneration. ## Sources / Provenance - U.S. National Park Service, coast redwood ecology: https://www.nps.gov/redw/learn/nature/coast-redwoods.htm - City of Palo Alto historical records for El Palo Alto: https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/ ## See Also [[wiki/El Palo Alto|El Palo Alto]], [[wiki/Persistence Without Multiplication|Persistence Without Multiplication]], [[wiki/Biological Bootloader|Biological Bootloader]], [[wiki/Ecology|Ecology]]