Definition of dawn redwood
: a metasequoia (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) of China resembling the coast redwood but having deciduous foliage
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Recent Examples on the Web Snyder noted that trees planted so far include dawn redwood, sugar maple, horse chestnut, redbud, crabapple and tupelo.
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Linda Gandee, cleveland, "Work on Rocky River’s new police station progressing; trees will be abundant," 25 May 2020 The tour passes by some living fossils — a Wollemi pine from Australia and a dawn redwood, which is an example of a tree that was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1941.
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Carl Nolte, SFChronicle.com, "Coronavirus and San Francisco: The pleasures of the neighborhood walk," 2 May 2020 But there’s an even older species—a living fossil dating back to the Miocene (23 to 5 million years ago) that is Oregon’s official state fossil: dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides).
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Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, "Meet Pando, Methuselah, and More of the World’s Oldest Trees—Right Here in the West," 11 Feb. 2020 Above: Britain’s Bedgebury National Pinetum and Forest, featuring dawn redwoods and swamp cypress.
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National Geographic, "Can the Super Bowl go green?," 29 Jan. 2020 Other unusual trees included a large weeping European beech, with a sort of natural room under its down-curving branches, and a huge dawn redwood, originally native to China, near the Schaible Science Center.
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Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com, "Elmhurst College groundskeeper shows some of the 900 trees making up the campus' certified arboretum," 17 June 2018
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