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Dawn Redwood
Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Dawn Redwood is a fast-growing flowering tree, hardy in USDA zones 4-8, that matures to about 70-100 ft × 15-25 ft. It does best in full sun with high water needs in well-drained and occasionally-wet soil. It blooms in brown. It stands up well to deer and wet soil.
- USDA zones
- 4-8
- Sun
- Full sun
- Water
- High
- Mature size
- 70-100 ft × 15-25 ft
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Maintenance
- Low
- Soil
- Well-drained, Occasionally-wet
- Bloom color
- Brown
- Tough against
- Deer, Wet soil
- Native to
- Central and western China
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