Wholesale
Nursery Stock Price List
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Metasequoia
Glyptostroboides
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Dawn
Redwood |
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Our current inventory of Metasequoia Glyptostroboides
(Dawn Redwood) is presented below by two (2) available sizes along with
their individual wholesale price (cost varies per size and quantity).
Metasequoia
Glyptostroboides (Dawn Redwood)
Zone 4, pyramidal, straight trunk, feathery
growth habit |
| 2.5"
(inches) |
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$
150.00 |
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3.0" (inches)
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$ 185.00
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The
Gerdes Fact Sheet
Scientific
Classification
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Kingdom...:
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Plantae |
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Division...:
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Pinophyta |
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Class...:
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Pinopsida |
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Order...:
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Pinales |
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Family...:
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Cupressaceae |
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Genus...:
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Metasequoia |
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Species...:
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Metasequoia Glyptostroboides |
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The Metasequoia Glyptostroboides is commonly
known as the Dawn Redwood and it is a deciduous conifer, which is very
unusual, and is a native to the Sichuan and Hubei provinces in west-central
China.
The needles of the Metasequoia Glyptostroboides
are deciduous and even the smaller branchlets drop off in winter. In autumn,
the foliage takes on a rich orange-brown or coppery color.
The Dawn Redwood has been around for 100
million years. It occurred throughout much of the world (including North
America) until it went extinct almost everywhere several million years
ago.
Today there are only 10 genera and 18 species
still living in the ancient family Taxodiaceae. Among these are California
redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum),
and baldcypress (Taxodium distichum).
The Dawn Redwood can grow up to 150 feet
tall with a trunk diameter exceeding 8 feet. The overall shape is
pyramidal with a single straight bole. The trunk becomes strongly fluted
and buttressed at the base and the bark is reddish brown and fibrous, shredding
and peeling in long, thin strips.
The Dawn Redwood is a very fast-growing
tree that can reach 50 feet in height in just 15 or 20 years. It
is a fine, stately specimen for large landscapes such as parks or golf
courses. They make excellent avenue trees. Fast growing, with a dense,
feathery texture, a stand of dawn redwoods creates an effective summertime
visual screen and windbreak in just a few years.
Fall color is excellent and even the winter
silhouette is very attractive with its massive, fluted trunk and strong
horizontal branches. Dawn redwoods are at their best along watercourses
or ponds and can even tolerate standing water.
It has been discovered that Metasequoia
will thrive in standing water, much like the baldcypress, and if left branched
to the ground in full sun, will develop the large, contorted boles that
have made it famous. Limbing at an early age will prohibit this formation
later on.
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