Several initial field identifications had mistaken this for another genus Glyptostrobus, Chinese swamp cypress, this helped lead to its later incorporation in the botanical name Metasequoia glyptostroboides. S., Chinese, European and Indian governmental and/or botanical institutions, receiving, distributing and planting seeds of Metasequoia beginning in 1948.
This all would eventually result with Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum, among other U.
A sequence of remote area field collections, initial misidentifications, further field collections, involvement of expert Chinese dendrologists and taxonomists followed. Coincidentally, soon thereafter a Chinese forester traveling in outlying, eastern Sichuan Province observed what would turn out to be living examples of Miki’s fossil-identified Metasequoia. Discounting these Pliocene remains as neither Taxodium (bald cypress) or Sequoia (coast redwood), Miki’s research established the new genus Metasequoia, by combining Greek meta, meaning “akin to,” and Sequoia. The story began in 1941 when Shigeru Miki (1903-1974), a Japanese paleobotanist established, through peer-review publication, a new genus from his studies of five million year-old fossils. Even our Boston newspapers would ultimately include headlines such as, “Extinct Tree Yields Seeds for America” and “Fossil Tree Found Alive.” In that relatively brief space of time, honest excitement was generated in the international spheres of forestry, botany and horticulture, as this formerly unrecorded genus actually amazed some in the scientific world. That may have been a similar thought occurring to several different Chinese foresters and forestry professors seventy-to-seventy-five years-ago. Dawn redwood, Metasequoia glyptostroboides elegantly enhances its growing space throughout the calendar year, but the rich, changeable autumn color, yellow-brown, apricot, russet-brown, causes many people to stop, pause, and ponder, “What is that tree?”
November brings a continuation of our colorful autumn foliage even as some earlier brilliantly colored maples, dogwoods and others have now shed their leaves. … I am adorned in the russet-brown message
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