Ive seen a photo of it an interesting form with a
primeval look. Im going to try to get hold of one.
They would look good in a group planting.

This is a very nice Sequioa but not the only weeping form there is a Sequioa sempervirens "Pendula"

This is a photo of the Sequioa sempervirens Loma Prieta Spike in a Garden in the Netherlands
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Henk.

nice looking plant!

Wow! They look amazing! Need to have one:-)
Thanks!

Benjamin

Very nice picture.

What do you think, will they reach the same size as the original sequoia sempervirens?

Benjamin

It will grow as fast as the species.
Remember that it's not 'Loma Prieta Spike' but 'Mt. Loma Prieta Spike'.

Forest Farm lists this plant in their online catalog this year. A #5 pot is $69.00 and is 4' to 5' tall. There is no * by the plant listing so there is no extra shipping charge due to an oversized box.

I've linked the FF page below.
Mike

Here is a link that might be useful: Forest Farm online catalog link

This thread is old, but I feel I need to correct the name. It is "Loma Prieta Spike". The fellow who found it, lived down the road from me. He told me that it was found near the epicenter for the Loma Prieta Eathquake in 1989 in the Nisene Marks forest. The name refers to the spike in the Richter scale made by the earthquake, not the location found. This is a picture of the original trees propagated, and grown by Alan Korth in Soquel, California. Mt. Loma Prieta is not in Nisene Marks Park where the original tree was found. These can be seen on the corner of Soquel-San Jose Rd and Little Creek Rd in Soquel, CA

https://conifersociety.org/conifers/sequoia-sempervirens-mt-loma-prieta-spike/

So....does this cause an arguement ?

once the name is in print , it stays ?

or do names sometimes change ?

ron

reminds me of Rotenhausii

similar

When it first hit the trade, it was mistakenly called 'Loma Prieta'. Several places were calling it such. It was also briefly called 'Stricta'.

The conifer society contacted me and asked if they could use a picture of mine on their website. I gave them the information that I posted above, and they mistakenly added "Mt." to the name. So yes.. names can change. The recent renaming of large numbers of plants due to DNA testing has been huge. In this case it would just be nice to honor the man who found, propagated and named the plant, by giving it the name he chose for it.

'Loma Prieta Spike'

A cultivar name becomes official once it is registered with an International Cultivation Registration Authority (ICRA). And once registered, it is unlikely to change (although foreign cultivar names are often anglicized y the marketplace to make it simpler for us dumb Americans to use and pronounce, since few of us think there is any language other than English!!) DNA testing and reclassification is typically addressed on a higher scale - genus and species - not by individual cultivar.

so , you are saying that ICRA made the mistake

The reason that I posted the link is that you can add a comment to the record and the editor of the database will evaluate it and update the record as necessary. There are MANY instances of registered names being 'incorrect' (not just in plants; we had a horse with the word 'paradigm' in his registered name but someone made an error and wrote it 'paradign' and it could not be changed!)

Sherry, based on your compelling information, I corrected the record in the ACS ConiferBase. Would it be also possible to obtain that picture of Allan's original plants for the permanent record? Thanks!

Thank-you David! I pulled the picture off Google maps.. it’s a busy road, with no good place for me to pull off and get a picture.

Ron while you and I were complaining, Dave and Sherry took care of business!