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THE Dawn
Redwood
About the Dawn Redwood :
The Dawn Redwood tree, Metasequoia
glyptostroboides, is a deciduous conifer, with soft
needle-like leaves that look like evergreens, but
are bright green in the spring and brilliant
orange/red in the fall. The needles are shed in the
cold season of winter. Dawn Redwood trees are a very
ornamental and interesting large tree, one of the
few deciduous conifers in the world. It is feathery
pyramidal in form with a straight, fluted trunk. It
grows very fast to 40’ and can grow to 70’.
The bark is red- brown, fissured and exfoliating
in long strips. It is a beautiful and stately tree,
well suited for large areas. It makes a very
effective, fast growing screen, perfect as a long
driveway alley. This tree does best in full sun and
when provided with adequate moisture. The Dawn
Redwood has been called "a living fossil" because it
was first discovered in Japan in 1941 and then found
growing in the wild in China. The species is over 50
million years old. It is a very hardy tree and
tolerates windy sites. |
