Metasequoia glyptostroboides 'Dawn Redwood'

The Dawn Redwood is relatively carefree and fast-growing. Popular for it's feathery foliage and impressive trunk and root spread when mature. Old specimens in the landscape are a sight to behold. Grows up to 4ft a year when young. Even though this tree is deciduous, it produces rounded cones. The dawn redwood was long thought to be extinct — with evidence of its existence found among dinosaur fossils — until it was discovered alive and well in a rural, mountainous area of China. It is now grown worldwide. Also popular for bonsai work.