{"id":3440,"date":"2012-08-01T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=3440"},"modified":"2013-06-12T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T21:28:09","slug":"dawn-redwood-is-back-from-extinction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2012\/08\/01\/dawn-redwood-is-back-from-extinction\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Redwood Is Back From Extinction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dawn redwood (Metasequoia)<\/p><\/div>\n

Dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides<\/em>) was thought to be extinct until the mid-twentieth century. In 1948 dawn redwood was re-introduced into North America from Sichuan-Hubei Provinces in China.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dawn redwood grows in full sun and in\u00a0well-drained, compost-rich soil. The tree struggles in dry or high pH soils. Dawn redwood will tolerate standing water for a brief period. It is often confused with\u00a0bald cypress (Taxodium distichum<\/em>) which grows in swampy ground as well as average landscape soils. If\u00a0branched low to the ground,\u00a0the trunk of dawn redwood may develop\u00a0large\u00a0swollen areas called \u201cboles\u201d.<\/p>\n

Dawn redwood is a deciduous conifer. New spring leaves emerge bright green and darken to a medium green. In autumn\u00a0the fine textured foliage initially turns pinkish tan and finishes reddish bronze before dropping. An attractive shredded reddish brown bark clothes a tapered trunk. Dawn redwood possesses distinctive \u201carm pits\u201d or depressed areas under each branch, where it is attached to the main trunk. The straight\u00a0trunk and redwood bark are\u00a0dominant winter features.<\/p>\n

Dawn redwood foliage remains fresh and clean all summer and is not plagued by disease and pest problems. Spider mites and Japanese beetles may injure the foliage occasionally, but its\u00a0quick growth rate leads to a\u00a0swift recovery. Dawn redwoods\u00a0often mature to 90-100 foot tall specimen trees, and are suited for large properties such as public parks, golf courses and college campuses.<\/p>\n

Gold Rush\u00ae (‘Ogon’) metasequoia is a gold-leaved form. It has a slower growth rate and matures to 50-60 feet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) was thought to be extinct until the mid-twentieth century. In 1948 dawn redwood was re-introduced into North America from Sichuan-Hubei Provinces in China.\u00a0\u00a0 Dawn redwood grows in full sun and in\u00a0well-drained, compost-rich soil. The tree struggles in dry or high pH soils. Dawn redwood will tolerate standing water for a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,834,851,645,674,774,329,777,630,646,7,231],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3440"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5003,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3440\/revisions\/5003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}