Exposure
full sun
Growth Rate
40-50' in 20 yrs., fast
Height
70'+
Spread
25'
Zone
4-8
Water Use
regular
Foliage
green/orange,red,brown
Flower
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Dawn Redwood
Large, deciduous conifer with a pyramidal, conical growth habit. May mature into a broadly rounded crown. Maintains a central leader that is reddish brown in youth and becomes darker, exfoliating and fissured with age. Needles are green during most of the season, then turn an orange-brown to red-brown in the fall.
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