Dawn Redwood
Metasequoia glyptostroboides

Location: 1251 Peralta
Park: Shinn Historical Park
District: Niles
Native to: Asia
Tree type: conifer
Leaf retention: deciduous

Comments: Deciduous conifer, native to China. The soft light-green flat needles appear in spring and turn yellow-brown before falling in autumn. This specimen was planted Arbor Day, 1965.
City of Fremont Landmark Tree.

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Illustration by Philip Eaker