The mihnor indigenous flora of Equinox, these trees were classified by an early botanical survey team in the Order Coniferales. A classification confirmed by the shape of their seed clusters which resemble seed cones from the Terran Sequoia semperverans. Further attribution was to the genus sequoia is their enormous size and extreme age – core samples of the mature trees confirms that the youngest of the sequoia neophytes were 230,000 standard years old. Sequoia neophytes is phototropic. Their branch systems unfold during daylight hours to facilitate the collection of sunlight for photosynthesis. However, the branches retract at twilight to conserve thermal energy. This later state is what has caused them to be known as Pillars because of their resemblance to the lotus-capped columns of an