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Small magical forest of elfin, or pygmy, redwood trees off Panorama/Coastal Bluff Trail at Andrew Molera State Park. These narrow, miniature trees form a dense forest of closely spaced trees, all rather alike, narrow with thin bark, having few lower branches. Foliage appears only at their tops, blending together to form a canopy greatly shading the ground below. Generally this species is much larger . . .
https://blog.bigsurtrailmap.net/elfin-redwood-forest-andrew-molera-sp/

Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) Conservation Status: Endangered (EN) (IUCN Red List)
This magnificent tree is less massive in girth than the Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) in the Sierra Nevada mountains, but it is taller. It is long-lived (1200–1800 years or more), and is the tallest of all species of trees. Short (10–25 mm) bright green leaves are alternate and flat (though leaves near the tops of the tree tend to be closed and scale-like). Cones are tiny for a tree of its size, no more than 35 mm in length. The thick, fibrous, reddish bark provides effective protection against forest fires. The trunks frequently have burls, repositories of dormant buds which enable the tree to regenerate asexually. Although wildfires will rarely destroy a Coast Redwood, it may hollow out the base of the trunk to form what are sometimes called “goosepens” (places where settlers in earlier times were able to corral their poultry or small livestock). Monterey County is the southern end of this tree’s range. Further south, there isn’t enough summer fog. Conservation Status: Endangered (EN) (IUCN Red List).

Plants of Monterey County: an Illustrated Field Key, 2nd edition, Matthews and Mitchell, 2015, pp. 12-13.

Jepson eFlora https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=44175

Monterey County Wildflowers https://montereywildflowers.com/tree-cupressaceae/

Elfin or Pygmy Redwood forest at Andrew Molera State Park near Big Sur, CA: https://blog.bigsurtrailmap.net/elfin-redwood-forest-andrew-molera-sp/

For people who love big trees:
A Tale of Big Tree Hunting in California. Excellent/Interesting reading by Chris Earle
https://www.conifers.org/topics/biggest.php

Albino Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) A handful of these rare albino redwoods grow in this Sequoia sempervirens forest. The tree is unable to produce chlorophyll and has white needles instead of the normal green. It survives by obtaining sugar through the connections between its roots and those of neighboring normal redwoods, usually the parent tree from whose base it sprouted.

Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) This magnificent tree has less girth than the Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron gigantea) in the Sierra Nevada, but it is taller. Coast Redwood is long-lived (1200–1800 years or more), and the tallest of all trees. Short (10–25 mm) bright green leaves are alternate and flat. Cones are tiny for a tree of its size, no more than 35 mm in length. The thick, fibrous, reddish bark provides effective protection against forest fires. The trunks frequently have burls, repositories of dormant buds which enable the tree to regenerate asexually. Although wildfires will rarely destroy a Coast Redwood, it may hollow out the base of the trunk to form what are sometimes called “goosepens” (places where settlers in earlier times were able to corral their livestock). Monterey County is the southern end of this tree’s range. Further south, there isn’t enough damp summer fog.
Conservation Status: Endangered (EN) (IUCN Red List).

Plants of Monterey County: an Illustrated Field Key, 2nd edition, Matthews and Mitchell, 2015, pp. 12-13.

Jepson eFlora https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=44175

Monterey County Wildflowers https://montereywildflowers.com/tree-cupressaceae/

Elfin or Pygmy Redwood forest at Andrew Molera State Park near Big Sur, CA: https://blog.bigsurtrailmap.net/elfin-redwood-forest-andrew-molera-sp/

For people who love big trees:
A Tale of Big Tree Hunting in California. Excellent/Interesting reading by Chris Earle
https://www.conifers.org/topics/biggest.php