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TT: RE: Re: I'm back!
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I have a paleobotanist friend who has a dawn redwood growing in her
front yard in Takoma Park, Maryland. It's about 30 years old and about
40 or so feet tall.
CF
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From: Tom Kimmerer[SMTP:tkimmer@pop.uky.edu]
Reply To: Community_Forestry
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 1997 9:09 AM
To: Community_Forestry
Subject: TT: Re: I'm back!
John Foy wrote:
>here's what my urban forest looks like:
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>- Two sweetgums
>- One Coastal Redwood
>- One Ponderosa Pine
>- One Mulberry (I know I'll get some mail on that one!)
>- One Japanese Maple
Nope, no mail on the mulberry (as long as its not a white
mulberry ;>). I'm curious about the redwood. Typically, we expect
coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) to survive only along the coastal
fog belt from S. Oregon to San Francisco. So, where did you plant it
and how is it doing?
I am curious to know whether anyone on the list has ever seen a
redwood growing away from the fog belt. This would be of great interest
to me as a plant physiologist. Dawn redwood (Metasequoia
glyptostroboides) does well in a variety of environments, as does giant
sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum). I recall that there were two giant
sequoias growing in Rochester NY until the late 1960s. They had been
collected by an expedition sent by Ellwanger and Barry, the pioneering
nurserymen, in the late 1800s, and survived until struck by lightning in
the '60s
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