Location and Notable Facts
- Other names
- Scientific Family
- Cupressaceae (Cypress Family)
- Discovery
- Believed to be extinct until discovered in China in 1944.
- Size (Width/Height/Growth/DBH)
- Can grow to 100 feet in height.
- Colors
- Deciduous dark green leaves in summer changing to a russet color in fall.
- Bloom/Seed/Fruit
- A deciduous conifer producing small, round 1/2" to 1" cones.

Photo credit to University of Minnesota: The UFore Nursery & Lab
- Leaf Arrangement
- Needle leaf deciduous trees with opposite attachment.

Photo credit to Purdue University
- Bark Arrangement
- Reddish-Brown peeling rough bark.

Photo credit to Franklin & Marshall College
- Invasive/Non-invasive
- Native/Non-native
- Non-native; introduced from China to the United States in the late 1940s.
- Pests/Disease
- Comparisons to similar trees
- Bald Cypress
- Dawn Redwood has opposite leaf arrangement Bald Cypress has alternate leaf arrangement.
- Bald Cypress will produce knees, if grown in wet areas. Dawn Redwood will not.
- Usefulness
- Ornamental; used in place of Bald Cypress where knees may occur
- Local Location / History:
- The main entrance to the CHI St. Vincent Hospital
- Dawn Redwood is a living fossil. Thought to have been extinct until 1944 when it was discovered growing in China.
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