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dawn redwood
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dawn redwood: see sequoia sequoia , name for the redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and for the big tree, or giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum), both huge, coniferous evergreen trees of the bald cypress family, and for extinct related species.
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dawn redwood

Coniferous, nonevergreen tree (Metasequoia glyptostroboides), the only living species of the genus Metasequoia, of the family Taxodiaceae, native to remote valleys of central China. Both branchlets and leaves grow out in pairs from points along the stem. The bright green, feathery leaves turn reddish brown in autumn. Though Metasequoia fossils are abundant, the tree was thought to be extinct until living specimens were discovered in the 1940s. Only a few thousand are known to have survived, in central China. Since these stands were discovered, seeds and cuttings have been planted throughout the world.



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Get close to the dinosaurs in the company of dawn redwoods, a tree that dates to prehistoric times and was thought to be extinct but found alive in China in the 1940s.
He said: "One of the issues is that there are not many dawn redwoods of (great) age because they have only been imported from China since 1941.
 
 
 
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