Today, there are 11 dawn redwoods on the Michigan Big Tree Register, a program of the Michigan Botanical Society. The ...

Dawn redwood trees once were believed extinct. The towering trees have been quietly growing in Michigan for decades.

A dawn redwood planted in 1954 stands about 86 feet tall and 3.9 feet in diameter at Michigan State University's Beal ...

"This is my first one, from what I've researched they're good between zones 4 to 8." Gardener seeks advice for tending to uncommon 'dinosaur' tree: 'It grows pretty fast at about 3-5 ft a year' first ...

Officially, it’s metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood, and it’s a living fossil. Its existence in our world speaks to a scale of time that’s difficult to comprehend. According to ...

Silvics: The dawn redwood is native to China’s Sichuan and Hubei provinces where it is found in low-lying areas near streams and rivers, hence the local nickname “water fir”. A versatile and ...

Winter isnt just a season of white -- it a canvas for color In southwest China a dawn redwood forest explodes with hues mirroring the strokes of an ...

Thanks to seed and saplings collected in China, the dawn redwood now flourishes in gardens throughout the world. Europe has just nine native species of rhododendron; China has more than 600.

Cambridge University Botanic Garden was the first botanic garden in the UK to grow this endangered tree species. It is distributed in at least 372 botanic gardens globally.