Image Citation: By Kevmin (Own work), via Wikimedia Commons
This tree is very unique in the fact that it lived along side the Dinosaurs and has survived, a feat that is limited to very living things. Upon rediscovery the Dawn Redwood was hailed as a living fossil as the taxon was believed to have become extinct during the late Miocene period. In Badlands National Park large petrified trunks and stumps of the Metasequoia occidentalis a very similar tree in this same family that is now extinct, make up the major portion of Tertiary fossil plant material in the badlands of western North Dakota. Image Citation: Gary Kling, University of Illinois, įossils have shown that during the Paleocene and Eocene periods there were vast forests of Dawn Redwood ( and other metasequoia varieties) throughout the northern portion of North America. The largest specimens remaing from this mass seed planting are (1) at The Bailey Arboretum on Long Island, (2) at James Blair Hall in Willamsburg, VA, (2) near Carnegie Lake in Princeton, NJ, (1) at Willow Wood, NJ, (1) Washington Arboretum in Seattle, (1) at the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum, CA. These seeds were planted in 1948-50 and many remain growing in botanical gardens and parks today. Seeds collected from an expedition performed by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University were sent in 1948 to all of the botanical institutions that were active at the time. It is native only to the Hubei province of China, but is now planted widely as an ornamental in both residential and commercial landscape settings.
Reaching a max recorded height of 200 feet at maturity - it is still a giant tree by normal standards.
Thought to once be extinct until it's rediscovery in 1944, the Dawn Redwood - Metasequoia glyptostrobboides - is the smallest of all Redwoods.
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