>> A fallen redwood sprouted into a whole row of trees

I had no idea they could do that. Amazing!

Where I went to college you couldn't help but step into a "fairy ring" made by sprouts from a felled redwood. People owuld dress them up like huts and hang out late at night with candles and reading poetry.

https://openspacetrust.org/blog/fairy-rings/

Trees are amazing!

> The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin immediately to repair the damage of the lumberman and also that of the forest-burner. As soon as a redwood is cut down or burned it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1897/08/the-ame...

Western redcedar, too. They have a lot in common with their distant northern cousins.

This is actually the primary method of reproduction. The seeds are basically infertile and will be outcompeted by grass.

The seeds do much better in mineral soil, out of a closed-canopy climax forest. It's a matter of environment, not seed fertility.

It's very easy to take a drive anywhere in Northern CA and find plenty of places where the primary form of reproduction is sexual.