
Dawn Redwood
- Botanical Name
- Metasequoia glyptostroboides
- Min Zone
- 5
- Max Zone
- 8
- Height
- 70 to 100 feet
- Width
- 25 feet
- Flowers
- Monoecious
- Fruit
- Cone: pendulous on long stalks, dark brown
- Fall Color
- Orange to orange-brown
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained, slightly acidic
- Planting & Care
- Avoid planting in frost pockets since late growth is injured by early fall frosts
- Do not encourage late growth by fertilization
- Rapid grower
- Tolerant of wet soils
- Squirrels often remove outer bark for nesting material
- Does poorly in dry or high pH soils
- Problems
- Canker, spider mites, Japanese beetles
- Varieties
- Gold Rush - golden yellow foliage, narrow habit, 50 feet tall by 20 feet wide
- Jack Frost - white and green foliage
- Emerald Feathers - bright green foliage
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