The seeds are wonderfully small end light, being only from an eighth to a fourth of an inch long and wide, including a filmy surrounding wing, which causes them to glint and waver in falling and enables the wind to carry them considerable distances.

Unless harvested by the squirrels, the cones discharge their seed and remain on the tree for many years.

In fruitful seasons the trees are fairly laden.

On two small branches one and a half and two inches in diameter I counted 480 cones.

No other California conifer produces nearly so many seeds, except, perhaps, the other sequoia, the Redwood of the Coast Mountains.