Coast Redwood
Sequoia sempervirens · Cupressaceae · 세쿼이아 셈페르비렌스
How to spot it
Thick, deeply furrowed reddish-brown bark, flat needles, and two white stomatal bands on the underside.
Look
- Leaves
- Flat linear needles have two white stomatal bands on the underside.
- Flowers
- Makes cones rather than the flowers of flowering plants.
- Fruit
- Small, hard woody cones, reddish-brown and egg-shaped to oblong, mature in the first year.
- Bark
- Thick reddish-brown bark is fibrous with deep furrows.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Pacific coast from southwestern Oregon to central California
- Ecology
- Grows in a foggy, cool, moist coastal climate. The crown provides habitat for mammals, birds and reptiles.
Sources
- NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
- 국립수목원 국가표준재배식물목록(개정)
- USDA Forest Service / Silvics of North America
- 미국 국립공원청(NPS) Redwood National and State Parks
- NPR ‘The World's Tallest Tree Is Hiding Somewhere In California’(Robert Krulwich, 2011.04.08)
- NPR ‘People who want to visit the world's tallest living tree now risk a $5,000 fine’(Juliana Kim, 2022.08.01)