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Key to Conifers
Metasequoia - Dawn Redwood
Trees with deciduous branchlets; needle leaves, deciduous,
somewhat flattened, opposite; cones elliptic, ca 2.5 cm long;
cone scales peltate, apex narrow elliptic to somewhat irregular
in outline with rounded margins and concave center.
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Metasequoia glyptostroboides - Dawn Redwood
- Bark, branchlets, and buds of pollen cones.
(Photographed at University of Richmond)
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