It offers great russet fall color as well.
‘Schirrmann’s Nordlicht’, Zones 58 ‘North Light’ dawn redwood has a shrublike form that seems to glow due to its variegation, which is more yellow in full sun and cream-tinted in partial shade. It is also found in eastern Sichuan, southwestern Hubei, and northwestern Hunan provinces, at 2,400 to 4,800 feet (750 - 1,500 m) elevation, where it is typically found on shady, moist sites such as ravines and stream banks. Metasequoia glyptostroboides ‘North Light’ syn.
30☁0'N, 108☄5'E, with an outlying occurrence in northwestern Hunan province at elevations of 2,400 to 4,800 feet (750 - 1,500 m) above sea level. Its primary occurrence is near the Sichuan-Hubei border, ca.
Seed cones are short and cylindrical, up to 0.8 to 1 inch (20 - 25 mm) long, terminal, solitary and pendulous on sparsely leaved lateral branchlets.ĭistribution. In autumn, the leaves turn reddish-brown before they are shed with the deciduous branchlets. The upper surface is bright green, with a narrowly grooved midvein, the under surface bearing obscure lines of stomata, lighter green or slightly glaucous, the midrib slightly raised. Leaves (needles) are linear, flattened, straight or slightly curved, about 0.5 inch (12 mm) long and 0.06 inch (1.6 mm broad on mature trees, but on seedlings and young trees are generally 1 to 1.25 inches (24 - 32 mm), sometimes up to 2.5 inches (64 mm) long. The green deciduous branchlets grow up to about 3 inches (7.5 cm) long, often longer on young trees. The persistent bright, reddish-brown when young, shallowly ridged, carrying the deciduous branchlets, numerous vegetative buds and a few leaves. Branchlets are glabrous, of two kinds, persistent and deciduous. Bark is reddish-brown when young, becoming darker, greyish, fissured, exfoliating in long, narrow strips. Its crown is conical when young, broad and rounded with age. Dawn redwood is a deciduous coniferous species of tree which will quickly grow to mature heights of 145 feet (45 m) tall, with a tapering trunk broadening to the buttressed base. A dwarf globose form with cream-yellow foliage with reddish branchlet highlights. Additions to the International Conifer Registerĭescription.
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