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Metasequoia glyptostroboides

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Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Cupressaceae) is a deciduous conifer known from fossils and assumed long-extinct before it was discovered growing in the wild in the 1940s.

Dubbed a "living fossil" by media reports of the day, dawn redwood was described from material growing in the village of Modaoqi, Sichuan in 1946. Seed became available outside of China in 1948. Most cultivated dawn redwoods are derived from the original seed source - probably a group of ca. 1000 trees in an isolated valley in Hubei. The fossil record of the Miocene Epoch (23 to 5 million years ago) shows Metasequoia inhabiting sites throughout the northern hemisphere, including what is now British Columbia.

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