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Dawn Redwood

Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Dawn Redwood

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Dawn Redwood Details:

Plant Facts
Mature Height
50 - 90 feet
Mature Spread
15 - 25 feet
Soil Type
Widely Adaptable
Moisture
Widely Adaptable
Mature Form
Pyramidal
Growth Rate
Rapid
Sun Exposure
Full Sun
Flower Color
Not Showy
Fall Color
Orange and Yellow
Foliage Color
Green
4-8

The Dawn Redwood tree, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, is a deciduous conifer, with soft needle-like leaves that look like evergreens, but are bright green in the spring and brilliant orange/red in the fall. The needles are shed in the cold season of winter. Dawn Redwood trees are a very ornamental and interesting large tree, one of the few deciduous conifers in the world. It is feathery pyramidal in form with a straight, fluted trunk. It grows very fast to 40’ and can grow to 70’.

The bark is red- brown, fissured and exfoliating in long strips. It is a beautiful and stately tree, well suited for large areas. It makes a very effective, fast growing screen, perfect as a long driveway alley. This tree does best in full sun and when provided with adequate moisture. The Dawn Redwood has been called "a living fossil" because it was first discovered in Japan in 1941 and then found growing in the wild in China. The species is over 50 million years old. It is a very hardy tree and tolerates windy sites.

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  Deer Resistant?, 8/21/2006 12:35:13 PM
Reviewer: mwilding
I want to know if anyone knows if this tree is deer resistent?

Answer from Nature Hills: According to Cornell University and the NJ Agricultural Station the Metasequoia Glyptostroboides (Dawn Redwood) is rarely eaten or severely damaged by Deer. Please note that planting and growing success will vary by deer populations and weather conditions.

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  An amazing tree!, 8/31/2006 8:02:39 PM
Reviewer: Toony
I bought a Dawn Redwood late last Spring; it arrived as a foot-&-a-half long bare stick with roots. NOW (end of August) it is a gorgeous, feathery, light green tree that is 5 feet tall and seems to grow visibly taller each day. Its a lovely full shape, too, with upward-arching branches. It truly is one of the most exciting and beautiful plants in my garden.

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  Wonderful Tree, 9/6/2006 11:40:07 AM
Reviewer: Jess
I got a Dawn Redwood that was 1 foot tall in the spring of 2005. It has truely been a hardy lil guy, since it is planted on our familys land where we have only made it out to feed or water it once all summer (in near drought conditions). In spite of this it has already passed 5 feet in height. The needles are so soft & a wonderful bright shade of green. Also, in response to the person who asked if they were deer resistant, I have never read if they are or not, but from my experience it is. We have many many deer on our property, and they never bothered it yet. Its only been a 1 1/2 years, but they ate a bunch of my other plants & never touched the redwood, so I think it will be fine.

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  joe, 9/14/2006 7:29:23 PM
Reviewer: wonderful tree
It is a statly tree, got it as a twig 16 years ago,it is over 50 feet now. But alas i will be chopping it down nex week. The roots are destroying my lawn and my sprinkler system

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  Amazing trees, 9/23/2006 5:59:43 PM
Reviewer: ptd
We are in our second property with dawn redwoods. Our last home in Chico, California had one that was about 30 feet tall. We loved to watch the fall colors turn and the spring sprout of the leaves. We now have property that has 4 dawn redwoods, from 15 to 35 foot tall along a creek. Our downstream neighbor also has 2 of these trees that we think may have grown from seed from the trees on our property. They are truely a beautiful tree and this year had a heavy cone population that looks as if it might break the bough of the tree.

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  my dawn redwood, 2/23/2007 3:22:27 PM
Reviewer: josaphine
After hurricane Rita got done with us all of our trees was down, I planted 7 trees, 1 was a Dawn Redwood, I was shocked when I received it, it was about 2 ft tall along with the others, I put them all into pots and they got watered when I thought about it.I planted them all in the fall of 2006, the dawn Redwood is about 6 ft tall now and growning like crazy, I am so glad I purchased it and wish every one had one like it. I checked it today and there is small buds coming out, so I know it made it through the hard winter we had.

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  josaphine, 4/26/2007 2:25:18 PM
Reviewer: josaphine
I purchased dawn redwood after the Hurricane Rita took down all our shade trees, when I purchased it it was about 1-2 ft tall, keep it in a pot till time to plant it,(fall) and NOW it is 5-6 ft tall. It is a BEAUTIFUL tree. No care necessary except here in La, we need to mulch bacause of the heat.I love it!!!

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  Fast Growing, 6/4/2007 6:08:53 PM
Reviewer: Bob
I purchased my home in 1999 and on the side of my house along an elevated deck was a beautiful tree. I did not know what it was and when researched discovered it was in fact a Dawn Redwood. At that time it was approx. 20-25 ft tall. Today it stands at over 40 ft and just keeps on thriving.

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  Beautiful and Unique, 7/12/2007 5:51:03 PM
Reviewer: Keith
I bought one of these last September. It was about two feet tall then. It has been less than a year and it has more than doubled in size, is very symmetrical and has beautiful foliage. I have it in full sun and water it daily.

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  I keep planting them, 10/4/2007 10:24:28 AM
Reviewer: Texas Gardener
Planted 2 bare root twigs spring of last year in the lawn. The one that gets more water is 10 and the dry area one is 6. Both are healthy and well branched even though they are growing in high ph orange clay in full Texas sun. They are doing so well I had to plant 2 more this year...one has already doubled in size!

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  Majestic, but be careful, 3/14/2008 3:25:08 PM
Reviewer: Sandman
The larger ones are pricey and beautiful. I bought a 6' Dawn Redwood and had high hopes. I planted it in late summer and it lost its feathery needles in the winter, Michigan, but it never came back in the spring. I noticed that rabbits had eaten the bark around the trunk and killed it. WATCH FOR THE RABBITS!!!

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