Plant: Dawn Redwood Tree
Redwood · Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Was $150.00
Size: 15 gal
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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
