Dawn Redwood Tree Bonsai
The tallest tree in the world is a coast redwood.
Dawn redwood tree bonsai. And even though its towering relative is an evergreen the dawn redwood is one of only two known deciduous conifers. Both species are suitable for bonsai. In the 40 s the dawn redwood became a popular decorative tree in parks gardens and was eventually used for bonsai. A dawn redwood bonsai is a living miniature tree and not a house plant.
The dawn redwood comes from china and is deciduous while the coast redwood is native to the coastal regions of northern california and oregon and is evergreen. The original dawn redwood bonsai trees are hearty conifers that have a lacey type of needled foliage on gracefully upswept branches. It is native to the sichuan hubei region of china. As a guide around thanksgiving day it is time to prepare your bonsai for its winter dormancy period which should last approximately three 3 months.
The needles are deciduous and quite pretty in the fall when the airy light green spray turns to yellow and then to bronze before shedding from the trees. The dawn redwood is an astonishing relic from the distant past. Outdoor deciduous beautiful dawn redwood bonsai tree approximately 45 50cm tall and in a ceramic bonsai pot. The only evidence that the tree ever existed in the first place had been fossils all the way until the 1940 s when it was re discovered in manchuria china.
Its native to manchuria china where the local villagers refer to it as shui sa or water fir the dawn redwood is a true redwood like the famous ones in california. Metasequoia glyptostroboides dawn redwood. The dawn redwood is a fast growing bonsai tree that s important for cultivation as its critically endangered. The dawn redwood and the coast redwood are both very tall upright trees with soft needle shaped foliage.
Therefore your bonsai must be maintained in a cool cold environment during the winter season. Called dawn redwoods they were thought to be extinct until the 1940s when one was discovered growing in a rice field in central china. Dawn redwood metasequoia glyptostroboides a deciduous conifer hails from china where it was believed to be extinct until a small grove of trees was discovered in the 1930s.