Positive: On Sep 1, 2009, Gascoigne from Shawnee Mission, KS (Zone 5a) wrote: I LOVE Metasequoia Glyptostroboides (Dawn Redwood). The dawn redwood is a fabulous landscape or city tree with fresh green, soft needles in spring and foxy reddish brown needles in fall. This spring I am planting a coast redwood.The dawn redwood seems to be doing fine in western Oklahoma. This tree is also tolerant to air pollution. Dawn Redwood has a trunk that becomes strongly fluted at the base and the bark is reddish brown and fibrous, shredding and peeling in long, thin strips. I planted a dawn redwood tree three years ago. Prefers acidic, moist, and well-drained soils, though can tolerate clay and wet soils. Delicate flat sprays of narrow, bright chartreuse yellow leaves emerge in spring, mature to golden yellow in summer, before warming up to rich. Critically endangered deciduous tree sole living species in its genus Metasequoia one of the three species of. Dawn Redwoods prefers moist, deep, well-drained soils that are slightly acidic. It has spreading branches that droop with age. It grows up to 30 metres tall with attractive, feathery foliage that is easy to transplant. Unlike most cone-bearing trees, it loses its foliage each winter. Dawn Redwood Metasequoia glyptostroboides. lol Metasequoia glyptostroboides or the Dawn Redwood is a large, fast-growing, deciduous, pyramidal evergreen tree. It features an upright, narrowly conical form that enhances many landscapes. Geographic Origin: Central and western China ( non-native)Ĭultivation Notes: Requires low maintenance. Metasequoia glyptostroboides 'Gold Rush' (Dawn Redwood) is a large deciduous coniferous tree of great beauty. Metasequoia is a large deciduous tree with reddish-brown.
It grows 70-100 feet high and 25 feet wide.įoliage: Deciduous (leaves lost seasonally) Metasequoia glyptostroboides Native to the UK: No Foliage: Deciduous Habit: Columnar upright Genus. With age, the trunk broadens at the base and develops intricate fluting. Bark is a red-brown, fissured, and exfoliates into long strips. Female cones are oval and light brown while male cones are round and hang from branches. Thought to be extinct until discovered in one valley in China. Beautful verdant foliage in the spring, braided trunk relief and attractive orange needles in the fall. In the fall, the needles turn an orange-brown to red-brown and fall from the tree in early winter. Metasequoia glytostroboides, the dawn redwood is a most exceptional species. However, it was not until 1941 that it was discovered by humans near the town of Modaoqi, China.Ĭharacteristics: The ½ inch long needles are feathery and bright green. Fossil records show that the dawn redwood may have existed up to 50 million years ago.
This tree differs from the majority of conifers, since it loses its needles seasonally. It has feathery and soft-to-the-touch needles which are green in the summer and turn orange-brown in the fall. The dawn redwood is a pyramidal conifer that can grow up to 100 feet high.
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