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Dawn Redwood

Metasequoia glyptostroboides · Cupressaceae · 메타세쿼이아

How to spot it

A deciduous conifer with opposite short shoots and buds, and oval cones hanging on long stalks.

Look

Leaves
Soft, linear leaves that turn reddish brown in autumn.
Flowers
A deciduous conifer that bears cones; the pollen cones are round.
Fruit
It bears cones instead of fruit. Mature seed cones are dark brown, oval or barrel-shaped, and hang down.
Bark
On mature trees the base of the trunk widens and the bark is deeply fissured.

Where it grows

In Korea
Planted
Native to
Central and western China.
Ecology
Tolerates wet soil and air pollution and transplants fairly easily, but is described as vulnerable to early frost.

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