Tabs Open #38: They Are Ambassadors From Another Time
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An interesting thing about trees—one that sounds apocryphal but is, in fact, true—is that giant sequoias require forest fires to reproduce. The biggest trees in the world by volume, the sequoias need intense heat to crack open their cones and release their seeds, and flames to scour the soil and turn it into a rich mineral bed for them.
Tabs Open #38: They Are Ambassadors From Another Time
Tabs Open #38: They Are Ambassadors From…
Tabs Open #38: They Are Ambassadors From Another Time
An interesting thing about trees—one that sounds apocryphal but is, in fact, true—is that giant sequoias require forest fires to reproduce. The biggest trees in the world by volume, the sequoias need intense heat to crack open their cones and release their seeds, and flames to scour the soil and turn it into a rich mineral bed for them.