Dawn Redwood - Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Leaf: Flattened needle like leaves

Flower: Monoecious (separate but on same tree); Unisexual; male flowers in racemes or panicles (clusters at end of branches), female solitary.

Fruit: Cones pedulous, on long stalks, globose or cylindrical, female solitary, 3/4 to 1" long and wide, dark brown, mature the first year, seeds small like those of arborvitae. Contains 5-9 winged seeds. Cones ripen in early December and shed their seeds in late December and early January. Seed wings are minute.

Twig: The current year twig will be green, brown, and thick.

Bark: Reddish brown when young, becoming darker, fissured and exfoliating in long narrow strips; base buttressing and developing irregular fluted character.

Form: tree

Dawn Redwood winter treeDawn Redwood spring treeDawn Redwood branch

The Dawn Redwood is used for landscaping, to cure tape worm, cures bloody diarrhea, and suppresses menstruation. The Dawn Redwood is from Northern China. It was thought to be extinct, but was rediscovered in the 1940's, and now it is widely planted in the U.S. This is a very rare tree.
The Dawn Redwood is found in Manchuria, China.

Located at the Mae Meissner Whitaker Community Park in Bunker Hill, Illinois.
N 39° 03.135' W 89° 56.931'

© Community Unit School District #8 Bunker Hill, 504 E. Warren, Bunker Hill, IL 62014


References:

http://www.canr.uconn.edu/plsci/mbrand/index.html
http://www.carnivoreemail.com/plantnames/DawnRedwood.html
http://www.treeinabox.com/DawnRedwood.html
 

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