Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Dawn Redwood
Taxodiaceae

Located next to Arjona building along Whitney Rd.

  • leaves deciduous, thin, light green, feathery
  • leaves borne on deciduous branchlets
  • leaves arranged opposite on stems
  • leaves turn bronzy in autumn
  • buds large, opposite, readily visible
  • trunk very straight and upright
  • side branches ascending, narrower crotch angle than Taxodium distichum
  • habit very uniform, pyramidal large tree
  • trunk has wide, flared base with wide furrows
  • bark red/brown, shredding into plates with age
  • fruit small, brown cones


View Metasequoia glyptostroboides page in the UConn Plant Database

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