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Zones: Sunset 3 - 10 and 14 – 24, A3 USDA Hardiness 5 - 10

Shading Capacity: Moderately Dense in Leaf, Moderately Dense out of Leaf.

Bark: Red Brown, Exfoliating or Furrowed.

Fruit: Brown or Mostly Green Cone, Small (0.25 - 0.50 inches), fruiting in Summer.

Lightning protection is recommended for older trees since they usually grow taller than. It quickly develops into a showcase specimen and has even been used as a street tree. The tree requires little if any pruning to maintain the pyramidal form.

Foliage: Deciduous, Linear and Needlelike, Light Green, Bronze Dawn Redwood grows rapidly on moist soil but tolerates dry sites also.

It measures 88 feet high, with a trunk circumference of 182 inches and a crown spread of 59 feet. The Dawn Redwood and the Coast Redwood are both very tall upright trees with soft needle-shaped. We are unable to guarantee plants that are improperly cared for after delivery.A Metasequoia glyptostroboides in Palo Alto is registered as a California Big Tree. If we are at fault we will replace the plant in question or issue a nursery credit for the purchase price of the plant.

Please contact us within 5 days of the receipt of your order if such is not the case.

Guarantee – We guarantee that all plants sold by Broken Arrow Nursery are healthy and true to name when they leave the nursery.

All shipments are weather and plant growth dependent. References 'Alan Mitchell's Trees of Britain', Alan Mitchell, 1996, HarperCollins, London, England. Miki 1941, at that time only known from fossils. It is the only species in the genus Metasequoia S.

Shipment Period – We ship plants in the fall from September – November and in the spring from March – May. Metasequoia glyptostroboides Hu & Cheng 1948.

Unfortunately we are unable to ship plants to AK, AZ, CA, CO, FL, HI, ID, MT, NV, OR, UT, or WA. Its original Japanese name was Ogon which translates to 'gold bullion' or 'gold coin'. This plant has a very long and confusing saga pertaining to its proper nomenclature.

Shipping Restrictions – Mail-order is restricted to the plants that are included in the mail-order section of our website. The original tree was planted in 1977 at the Kameyama breeding station, Institute for Forest Tree Improvement, New Oji Paper Co., Ltd, Mie, Japan.

A small number of oversized plants have an additional $10 surcharge. There is a $30, $35, or $40 minimum shipping fee, depending on your region, for plant orders under $100. The meaning of METASEQUOIA is any of a genus (Metasequoia) of deciduous coniferous trees of the bald cypress family comprising one extant and various fossil. It is the sole living species of the genus Metasequoia.

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Although shortest of the redwoods it grows to at least 200 ft (61 m) in height. A full sun lover, this plant is easily grown in moist, well-drained or poorly drained soils. Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood, is a fast-growing, endangered deciduous conifer. It is native to the SichuanHubei region of China.

Shipping Charges - Due to increasing costs associated with shipping plants and the time required to package orders we have established a 30% flat shipping fee for all plant orders in the Northeast, 35% flat shipping fee for remaining states east of the Mississippi River and a 40% flat shipping fee for all states west of the Mississippi River. Metasequoia glyptostroboides the dawn redwood is a fast-growing endangered coniferous tree the sole living species of the genus Metasequoia one of three species in the subfamily Sequoioideae.

Changing Your Order - If you have an order that has been placed, the only way to modify it is by emailing us.

For spring, our plants will be shipped from March 7th (weather dependent) until the week of April 25th. A bad time to plant a tree in northern Illinois while experiencing a.