Metasequoia glyptostroboides
The story
Deep in the border regions of China's Hubei and Hunan provinces, as well as the Chongqing municipality, lies the exclusive sanctuary of the dawn redwood. Surviving only in wet lower slopes and montane river and stream valleys—most notably within Lichuan county—this endangered tree stands as a living relic of the ancient subfamily Sequoioideae, persisting quietly where mountain waters flow.
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- Family
- Cupressaceae
About
Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood, is a fast-growing, endangered deciduous conifer. It is the sole living species of the genus Metasequoia, one of three genera in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae. It now survives in the wild only in wet lower slopes and montane river and stream valleys in the border region of Hubei and Hunan provinces and Chongqing municipality in south-central China, notably in Lichuan county in Hubei. Although the shortest of the redwoods, it can grow to 167 ft (51 m) in height.
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Metasequoia glyptostroboides
- Slug
- metasequoia-glyptostroboides
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Cupressaceae
- Genus
- Metasequoia
- Species
- glyptostroboides
- Wikidata QID
- Q156800
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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