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The largest dawn redwood recorded was an isolated specimen in China about 50 meters (160 feet) tall and 2.2 meters (7.2 feet) wide. This tree was killed by a lightning strike in 1951. [18] Several dawn redwoods of this height still live in the eastern part of Metasequoia Valley, where the tree was discovered.
Metasequoia, or dawn redwood, is a genus of fast-growing coniferous trees, one of three species of conifers known as redwoods. The living species Metasequoia glyptostroboides is native to Lichuan county in Hubei province, China. Although the shortest of the redwoods, it grows to at least 165 feet (50
Sequoioideae, commonly referred to as redwoods, is a subfamily of coniferous trees within the family Cupressaceae, that range in the northern hemisphere. It includes the largest and tallest trees in the world. The trees in the subfamily are amongst the most notable trees in the world and are common ornamental trees.
The Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) is a deciduous conifer endemic to the Daba Shan, whose nearest living relatives are the Coast Redwood and Giant Sequoia of California. Redwoods formerly ranged across the northern hemisphere, but were thought to be extinct outside California until stands of Dawn Redwood were discovered in the Daba ...
Previously only known in fossils and thought to be extinct, the Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) was rediscovered in 1943 in the hilly Lichuan County, on the eastern mountain fringe of the Sichuan Basin. [11] The Dawn Redwood is distinctive because it is a deciduous conifer. [citation needed]
A dawn redwood. Metasequoia occidentalis: Sequoia †Sequoia affinis [15] Lesquereux. A coast redwood Reported as "Sequoia langsdorfii" by Brown, 1935 Sequoia affinis: Taiwania. Undescribed [7] A Taiwania species not described to species Taxodium †Taxodium dubium [17] [15] (Sternberg) Heer A bald cypress. Thuja. Undescribed [12] [13] An ...
Sequoia affinis is an extinct [1] species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae.. The name Sequoia sometimes refers to the subfamily Sequoioideae, which includes the still-living Sequoia sempervirens along with Sequoiadendron (giant sequoia) and Metasequoia (dawn redwood).
Metasequoia: dwarf redwoods; Metasequoia glyptostroboides: dawn redwood Cupressaceae (cypress family) Platycladus: arborvitae; Platycladus orientalis: Oriental arborvitae Cupressaceae (cypress family) Sequoia: true redwoods; Sequoia sempervirens: coast redwood; California redwood; giant redwood Cupressaceae (cypress family) 211 Sequoiadendron ...