Metasequoia glyptostroboides (dawn redwood), Pinaceae

Welcome to Into the Forest: Tree and Shrub Identification with Pualani Derman, Instructor of Natural Resources Technology at Mt. Hood Community College. This video introduces you to Metasequoia glyptostroboides (dawn redwood). This video is provided as part of a series for F141 Tree and Shrub Identification. This field-based course focuses on the identification, classification and distribution of key trees and shrubs of the Pacific Northwest as well as major tree species and forest types of North America. The course emphasizes botanical nomenclature and field identification using plant keys. This class introduces ranges, habitats, uses and silvical characteristics of key plant species.
Find out more about the MHCC Natural Resources Technology program at www.mhcc.edu/NRT

[@dzs1945]

Interesting! I planted a Dawn Redwood in Lancaster, PA. About 1965 to 1970. It is now about 95 feet high.

[@Brian-xu9rx]

My favorite tree by far. And I love all trees. Planted 9 in my yard over the pst 2 years, as well as 12 Bald Cypress. Along with a bunch of others. At this point I’m going for a full on forest. Yours must be a beauty!

[@dzs1945]

@@Brian-xu9rx This is the first year we noticed seedlings.We got around 20. Only around 8 survived. I bought a dawn redwood this spring. It grew 57 inches and then it quit growing about 3 weeks ago. I want to start a groove in our back yard.

[@MHCCDendrology]

I love these trees and hope to plant some on our campus.

[@KD-mo1gb]

I have a dawn redwood and I live in northeast Texas and unfortunately this Spring only one side of the tree is blooming. I’m trying to figure out what is causing this so I can save it. The tree is about 12 feet tall

[@chrisnoel1646]

Found in China… the Lichuan province I believe

[@blakespower]

00:50 wait you said the dawn redwood produced cones for the 1st time in centuries, in 1952, even though it was only exported out of China in the 1940's after being discovered alive

[@h.n.4060]

She had a lot of her historical facts mixed up. The fossils the Japanese paleontologist was looking at in 1940 were from the US, not Japan. The tree originated in what is the US today over 100 million years ago. They spread quickly up north across Alaska into Asia (and nearly into Europe), and then they quickly died off almost everywhere except in the small river valley in China. So what she probably meant is that it produced cones for the first time in NORTH AMERICA in centuries (and by centuries, she meant 1.5 million years).