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Sequoia sempervirens (/ s ə ˈ k w ɔɪ. ə ˌ s ɛ m p ər ˈ v aɪ r ən z /) [3] is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupressaceae (formerly treated in Taxodiaceae). Common names include coast redwood, coastal redwood and California redwood. It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living 1,200 ...
The three redwood subfamily genera are Sequoia from coastal California and Oregon, Sequoiadendron from California's Sierra Nevada, and Metasequoia in China.The redwood family contains the largest and tallest trees in the world.
Redwood National Park, California, United States [62] [63] Giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) 8.85 29.0 General Grant: General Grant Grove, California, United States [64] A hollow, nameless Giant Sequoia along the Paradise Trail of the Atwell Mills Grove in Sequoia National Park, has a basal diameter (not girth) of 57 feet (17 meters). [65]
Coast redwood: Sequoia sempervirens: 1937 [8] [9] Giant sequoia: Sequoiadendron giganteum: Colorado: Colorado blue spruce: Picea pungens: 1939 [10] Connecticut: White oak (See also: Charter Oak) Quercus alba: 1947 [11] Delaware: American holly: Ilex opaca: 1939 [12] District of Columbia: Scarlet oak: Quercus coccinea: 1960 [13] Florida: Sabal ...
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) Sequoiadendron: giant sequoias; Sequoiadendron giganteum: giant sequoia; big tree
This is what I witnessed in Redwood Mountain Grove: verdant carpets of young sequoias stretching up to my knees and covering the hillsides. And this new generation is thriving.
Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood, is a fast-growing, endangered deciduous conifer. It is the sole living species of the genus Metasequoia , one of three genera in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae.
This is the largest giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) among more than a dozen that were planted early in the 20th century in Laurelhurst Park of Portland, Oregon. The tallest tree in the world is the coast redwood; the most massive tree is the closely related giant sequoia. Both have non-overlapping native ranges limited to California ...