Would appreciate confirmation: Dawn Redwoods??
Feb 23, 2018 08:55:15 #
I see these trees every time I drive through Eisenhower Park, here on Long Island. There is something very special about them. In the summer they have soft needles. Are they Dawn Redwoods? Would love to know. Not sure why I need to, they're beautiful anyway, but... Taken with Canon T3i and new 18-400 Tamron lens.
Feb 23, 2018 09:13:15 #
We have them upstate and we call them deciduous Pine trees. I never knew the correct name
Feb 23, 2018 09:14:03 #
So they turn red & drop during winter? Sure sounds like Dawn Redwoods to me. I planted one many years ago in the country but the deer ate it to the ground in one night... These are ancient prehistoric trees from China. Very interesting to me.
Feb 23, 2018 09:30:15 #
The trunk on the one on the right looks like dawn redwoods I've seen. A close up of the needles would help.
Feb 23, 2018 09:33:46 #
I would say they are either dawn redwoods or bald cypress, and probably dawn redwoods. You probably know this, but they are a special tree in that they represent a type only seen in fossil records before being discovered a hundred years or so ago in deepest China, so you find them in places of honor in older arboretums. Relatively recently they have been brought in for normal use and they grow so fast that they look like they've been there forever.
The bald cypress is a great tree and is growable in a broader range north than you'd expect for a cypress, but it is not generally offered in nurseries these days for some reason.
The bald cypress is a great tree and is growable in a broader range north than you'd expect for a cypress, but it is not generally offered in nurseries these days for some reason.
Feb 23, 2018 09:35:34 #
Feb 23, 2018 09:42:43 #
taj334 wrote:
I see these trees every time I drive through Eisenhower Park, here on Long Island. There is something very special about them. In the summer they have soft needles. Are they Dawn Redwoods? Would love to know. Not sure why I need to, they're beautiful anyway, but... Taken with Canon T3i and new 18-400 Tamron lens.
I like the reddish color and the shape of the trees.
Feb 23, 2018 09:45:19 #
taj334 wrote:
I see these trees every time I drive through Eisenhower Park, here on Long Island. There is something very special about them. In the summer they have soft needles. Are they Dawn Redwoods? Would love to know. Not sure why I need to, they're beautiful anyway, but... Taken with Canon T3i and new 18-400 Tamron lens.
Nice pix. Thanks for posting. Interesting. http://www.dawnredwood.org/INFORMATION.htm & http://newportarboretum.org/home/portfolio/gold-rush-dawn-redwood/ I live in California and we do not have these. In fact I've never heard of a deciduous Pine tree before. The only time ours loose their leaves is when they are dying from Bark Beetles. Sadly millions of them right now. Entire sections of mountains are brown with dead trees! Your Dawn Redwood is formally named Metasequoia glyptostroboides. Oh, and yes, they are from China. Once thought extinct.
Feb 23, 2018 09:51:11 #
gvarner
Loc: Central Oregon Coast
Google it. Should be lots of identification info out there. Leaves and flowers are the most definitive parts to identify trees. Bark varies by age and habitat quite a bit within species. A deciduous conifer is definitely unique.
Feb 23, 2018 11:05:01 #
lamiaceae wrote:
Nice pix. Thanks for posting. Interesting. url... (show quote)
Thank you so much for the links. After checking them out and looking at summer pics where the branchlets are opposite, I'm sticking with dawn redwoods. What a fascinating tree. Just love the symmetry and the fact that every season it's different.
Feb 23, 2018 11:06:25 #
photophile wrote:
I like the reddish color and the shape of the trees.
That's what grabbed me too. Love the symmetry. And they look so stately. Sometimes I go through the park just to see them.
Feb 23, 2018 11:10:23 #
magee wrote:
I would say they are either dawn redwoods or bald ... (show quote)
Thanks Magee for your comment. I've seen bald cypress in an arboretum not too far away. Love their knees. Since these are not near anything damp (they're on a road median) and their overall shape is pyramidal . I'm thinking dawn redwood does it. So much to learn.
Feb 24, 2018 05:47:38 #
taj334 wrote:
I see these trees every time I drive through Eisenhower Park, here on Long Island. There is something very special about them. In the summer they have soft needles. Are they Dawn Redwoods? Would love to know. Not sure why I need to, they're beautiful anyway, but... Taken with Canon T3i and new 18-400 Tamron lens.
Nice shot.
Feb 24, 2018 06:29:10 #
Feb 24, 2018 07:01:05 #
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