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Usage examples of "sempervirens".
Bettik also informed me that there was a single, gigantic Templar treeship in orbit now -- the Sequoia Sempervirens -- and that it was captained by the True Voice of the Startree Ket Rosteen and was carrying several of our old friends, including Rachel, Theo, the Dorje Phamo, the Dalai Lama, and the Ousters Navson Hamnim and Sian Quintana Ka'an.
The Sequoia Sempervirens had parted its branches to make a perfect berth for us, so we could walk from Hyperion soil to the great bridges and branches and walkways of the ship with no sense of transition.
We freecast down, found him, explained the voyage -- he did not need the explanation because he had heard us coming through his own listening -- and brought him back to the Sequoia Sempervirens with us.
The Sequoia Sempervirens had been in low orbit around Old Earth -- or just plain "Earth" as Martin Silenus demanded we call it -- for several hours.
The sempervirens, however, reaches the diameter of 16 feet, and some of the greatest trees of this species are in the Bohemian Club grove.
These are sequoia sempervirens, the coastal redwood, and ours are second growth, about a hundred feet tall, up a yard thick, and around ninety years old.