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Common names include coast redwood, coastal redwood and California redwood. It is an evergreen, long-lived, monoecious tree living 1,200–2,200 years or more. [4] This species includes the tallest living trees on Earth, reaching up to 115.9 m (380.1 ft) in height (without the roots) and up to 8.9 m (29 ft) in diameter at breast height.
Foliage of an 'albino' redwood. An albino [a] redwood is a redwood tree which is unable to produce chlorophyll, and has white needles instead of the normal green. It survives by obtaining sugar through the connections between its roots and those of neighboring normal redwood(s), usually the parent tree from whose base it has sprouted.
The suburb of ‘Redwood’ is named after a 160 years old Giant Redwood tree in the grounds of a local hotel. At St James Church, Harewood, is a protected very large specimen believed to be about 160 years old. A grove of about sixteen Redwood trees of varying ages is in Sheldon Park in the Belfast, New Zealand suburb. Some of these trees are ...
Jōmon Sugi (縄文杉) is a large cryptomeria tree located on Yakushima, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Japan. It is the oldest and largest among the old-growth cryptomeria trees on the island, and is estimated to be between 2,170 [26] and 7,200 years old. [27] [28] Cryptomeria are often described and referred to in Japanese literature.
The Cupressaceae trees contain a wide range of extractives, especially terpenes and terpenoids, [39] both of which have strong and often pleasant odors. The heartwood, bark and leaves are the tree parts richest in terpenes. [40] Some of these compounds are widely distributed in other trees as well, and some are typical for Cupressaceae family.
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.
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
Sequoiadendron is a genus of evergreen trees, with three species, only one of which survives to the present: [1]. Sequoiadendron giganteum, extant, commonly known as wellingtonia, giant redwood and giant sequoia, [2] growing naturally in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California [3]