Californian Redwood
Latin Name : Sequoia sempervirens
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As its common name suggests, this tree is a native of California, where it will achieve a height of 100M + in the coastal forests, and its average maximum age is 500/700 years. There have been many that have been calculated to be 2000 years old, and the oldest known tree was 2200 years old when it was felled in 1934
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This image is of one growing in Devon, where at that time it was measured at 41M, 138 feet in old money.
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Foliage looking remarkably like the Dawn Redwood – Metasequoia
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