Native North American trees are divided into two broad groups---hardwoods and conifers. Trees like oaks, maples and birches are hardwoods and are, strictly speaking, flowering plants. Conifers like the… More »
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Redwoods are conifers, which means they have cones and needle-like leaves. A redwood cone is about one inch long and contains 14 to 24 tiny seeds about the size of a tomato seed. A single tree may produce millions of seeds in a year. Only a...
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Redwoods need fire to survive. The bark of the coast redwood contains tannins, chemicals which resist burning. The last fire to burn at Muir Woods was 130 years ago. Walking among the trees, the scars of this fire are visible. ... burls are one of the three ways redwood trees reproduce...
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Sequoia sempervirens (pronounced /sɨˈkwɔɪ.ə ˌsɛmpərˈvaɪrənz/ , latin pronuntiation /sɛkwɔɪ.ə ˌsɛmpərˈvɪrənz/) is the sole living species of the genus Sequoia in the cypress family Cupre...
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Like the 370-foot Giant, the three trees are coast redwoods. They were discovered this summer in Redwood National Park near Eureka by a team of California researchers who spend most of their free time bushwhacking through North Coast forests in search of taller and taller trees.
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Coast redwoods reproduce by seeds and by stump sprouting. Seeds slightly larger than a pinhead are released from mature cones that ripen in August and September. If a redwood is felled or badly burned, a ring of new trees sprouts from burls around the trunk's base.
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Because coast redwoods can reproduce themselves through a natural cloning process as well as by mating with other trees, one eight hundred year old tree could effectively be the latest incarnation of an individual tree.
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Milarch said coast redwoods can reproduce themselves through a natural cloning process and by mating with other trees. A tree like Grandma could effectively be the latest incarnation of an individual tree that first saw daylight 20,000 years ago, he said.
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But Milarch calls redwoods a special case. Because coast redwoods can reproduce themselves through a natural cloning process as well as by mating with other trees, a tree like Grandma could effectively be the latest incarnation of an individual tree that first saw daylight 20,000 years ago, Milarch said.
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Redwoods are evergreen, and do not lose their leaves like other members of the Taxodiaceae family (Snyder 1992). The roots are incredibly shallow for such a huge tree. ... Redwoods reproduce two ways. ... Redwoods do reproduce by seeds, though the seeds and cones are smaller than one would anticipate from such a large tree.
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