Sequoia or welly?

[WeeDee]

It's almost as if google never existed.

 

A fair point.

 

I turned to Collins Tree Guide for reference, as the OP's question made me wonder.

[Paul Cleaver]

hello is there any dawn redwoods in this country just wondering what they looked like its just that on the parkland where i work there are various big growth douglas, various pines , silver firs and also the supposed redwoods???? now i want to identify them it would be great to get some photos:thumbup::thumbup:

 

yeh loads

[skyhuck]

hello is there any dawn redwoods in this country just wondering what they looked like its just that on the parkland where i work there are various big growth douglas, various pines , silver firs and also the supposed redwoods???? now i want to identify them it would be great to get some photos:thumbup::thumbup:

 

Yes, I've felled a few, they are deciduous.

[se7enthdevil]

hello is there any dawn redwoods in this country just wondering what they looked like its just that on the parkland where i work there are various big growth douglas, various pines , silver firs and also the supposed redwoods???? now i want to identify them it would be great to get some photos:thumbup::thumbup:

 

there are dawn redwoods over here but i dont think that they are very common (i may be wrong) as there is only one near me at a park by the rivers edge crossing the thames at maidenhead. looks very skinny when it looses its needles.

[se7enthdevil]

Coast Redwoods and Giant Sequoias are two different species.

 

Are we talking about the same trees?

 

we are talking about the same tree not trees. what people call a giant sequoia is the costal redwood.

[Marc Lewis]

Over the years forest fires have been vital to the regeneration of redwoods in the North West Pacific. Although they are amongst the largest trees on earth, they have very small seeds that struggle to germinate on the forest floor. When a fire spreads through the forest the heat opens the cones allowing the seeds to fall and germinate in the fresh ash left by the fire. Meanwhile the trees fire resistant bark saves the tree from the fire. Quite interesting.

 

As has been said, the 2 spp of tree that tend to get mixed up are the Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and the Wellingtonia (Sequoiadendron giganteum). It is the Wellingtonia that tends to have other names such as Giant Redwood and Big Tree. The Coast Redwood tends to be known just as Coast Redwood.

[Paul Cleaver]

they look great in autumn - look very like the swamp cypress which are less common

[MattyF]

I always get metasequoia and taxodium swamp cypress mixed up!

[Paul Cleaver]

It is the Wellingtonia that tends to have other names such as Giant Redwood and Big Tree. The Coast Redwood tends to be known just as Coast Redwood.

 

phew thank freak for that:thumbup:

[WeeDee]

we are talking about the same tree not trees. what people call a giant sequoia is the costal redwood.

 

Well then Owen Johnson and David Moore have also got it wrong.

 

As they've been compiling the Collins Tree Guide, they've mistakenly classified the Coast Redwood and the Giant Sequoia as two different species.