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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (5 children)

neato burrito! I wasn't aware that redwoods existed outside of California

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

cool! im happy they are more prevalent. those are some cool trees

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

They're mostly planted outside of CA but they can survive and thrive in many places!

It's really interesting how tiny the native range of certain species of plants are, I have a Port Orford cedar in my yard that only natively grows on the coast right at the border of Oregon and California.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

China has their own flavor of sequoias too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The dawn redwood or metasequoia glyptostroboides, the only deciduous variety of redwood is super cool and they're so pretty!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yes they are! I live among them and they're awesome.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I'm pretty sure you can grow them in michigan too - they just won't get very tall.

There's also the "Dawn Redwood", thought extinct and discovered in China in 1940s, that is now planted all over the US.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There's a rare phoenix sequoia that I know of.

Seeds have been bought back from America and cultivated on large private estates.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

We have a few redwood forests in my state in Australia.

And you have our Eucalyptus in your state.

Fair trade I say.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

My friends dad is a horticulturist who helps bring redwoods noth as climate changes. They are awesome!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

I mean its basically the same environment, and Taxodiaceae were globally distributed not even that long ago. This really shouldn't be too surprising.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

In NZ they grow like weeds.