Plant: Dawn Redwood Tree

Redwood · Metasequoia glyptostroboides

-25%$112.50

Was $150.00

Size: 15 gal

Light

Full Sun

Bloom

Spring

Mature size

100 ft tall25 ft wide

More about this plant

Dawn redwood is a deciduous conifer from central and western China, known from 50 million year old fossils before living trees were rediscovered in the 1940s. It grows rapidly to a tall pyramidal form with fine, feathery, fern like foliage that emerges light green, deepens through summer and turns red bronze before falling. Mature trunks are reddish brown, deeply fissured and fluted at the base. Plant it in full sun in clay or organically rich soil with good drainage that is occasionally wet, where it makes a striking specimen or street tree with room to grow.

  • Full Sun
  • Grows to 100 ft tall and 25 ft wide
  • Blooms in spring
  • Hardy in USDA zones 4-8
  • Deciduous foliage

Plant description

Dawn redwood is a deciduous conifer from central and western China, known from 50 million year old fossils before living trees were rediscovered in the 1940s. It grows rapidly to a tall pyramidal form with fine, feathery, fern like foliage that emerges light green, deepens through summer and turns red bronze before falling. Mature trunks are reddish brown, deeply fissured and fluted at the base. Plant it in full sun in clay or organically rich soil with good drainage that is occasionally wet, where it makes a striking specimen or street tree with room to grow.

Foliage
Linear, subopposite leaves crowded on the shoots, pliable, feathery and fern like, soft to the touch, light green in spring, deep green in summer and red bronze before dropping.
Fruit
Pendulous, dark brown, ellipsoid or barrel like female cones up to one inch long with 14 to 28 scales.
Bark & stems
Reddish brown bark, deeply fissured on mature trees, with fluting at the base of the trunk.
Native range
Central and western China

Plant details


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