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These Bay Area trees existed nowhere else on the planet. Did they survive a devastating wildfire?
Again, what's with the clickbait headline? "The answer may surprise you!" grr. Anyway, they're talking about the Butano cypress, apparently a relic of a climate that existed millions of years ago in California. And the answer is yes: though the existing trees were reduced to charcoal and ash in the August 2020 CZU fire, their saplings are sprouting.
Again, what's with the clickbait headline? "The answer may surprise you!" grr. Anyway, they're talking about the Butano cypress, apparently a relic of a climate that existed millions of years ago in California. And the answer is yes: though the existing trees were reduced to charcoal and ash in the August 2020 CZU fire, their saplings are sprouting.