Dawn Redwood
Scientific Name:Metasequoia glyptostroboides


NOTES: Deciduous conifer thought to have been extinct for 20 million years until a Chinese forester found an enormous Dawn Redwood in the Sichuan province of China in 1944.

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Dawn Redwood
Genus species: Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Common Name: Dawn Redwood
Family Name: Cupressaceae  
Shrubs or trees; cone-bearing.
Seed Type: Gymnosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Tree
CNC Habitat: Nature Playscape
Identified by:J.D. Mancini

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