Dawn Redwood
Metasequoia glyptostroboides Hu & W.C.Cheng
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 25 m
- wide
- 6.1 m
Cupressaceae
Also called Dawn redwood
Formerly Metasequoia honshuenensis, Metasequoia neopangaea, Sequoia glyptostroboides
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- China (Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 19 m to 30 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 4.6 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- BrownRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 天浆壳, 水杉
- Arabic
- سكويا الفجر
- Catalan
- Secoya de l'alba
- Czech
- metasekvoje čínská
- Danish
- Vandgran
- German
- Urweltmammutbaum
- Esperanto
- Metasekvojo
- Spanish
- Metasecuoya
- Estonian
- Metasekvoia
- Finnish
- Kiinanpunapuu
- French
- Métaséquoïa de Chine
- Hebrew
- מטסקוויה
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Metasequoia glyptostroboides (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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