http://www.metasequoia.org/
Posted on 08/20/2007 6:04:45 PM PDT by Coleus
My English teacher would have given this an A plus...for all those ridiculous descriptive words they lust after.
thanks, i was wondering what they looked like.
The “modern version” is the Tamarac
Botanical: Larix Americana (MICHX.)
Family: N.O. Coniferae
-—Synonyms-—American Larch. Black Larch. Hackmatack. Pinus Pendula (Salisb.).
-—Habitat-—Eastern North America.
also loses it’s needles for winter - the “naked xmas tree”
Very cool. They classify them as redwoods I think, from the links from a site. I wonder if anyone has looked at them for commercial viability . . . if they grow fast or have attractive wood they could make a huge comeback with the logging companies planting them. Looks like they would be easy to log and strip.
I read somewhere that a grove of ancient “dinosaur” trees were discovered in an obscure niche in Australia. The seeds, I heard, were going for about $80 each.
Anyone remember this?
http://earthsci.org/fossils/geotime/wollemi/wollemi.htm
The single known population of Wollemi Pine is in a rainforest gully within Wollemi National
Park (487,648 ha). This is the State’s largest wilderness area - located West of the Putty Road
between Sydney and the Hunter Valley.
Google “dinosaur tree” australia
I’ve got 2 of these in my back yard (bought at a nursery). Haven’t done any DNA testing on them. Handsome trees, grow pretty fast.
Hell! I thought this was about the US Senate!!...
If they’re like Tamaracs, they grow in very marshy environments.
Tamaracs around Northern Wisconsin were harvested for pilings, the wood is extremely resistant to rot. It dries hard and burns hot. You can’t drive a nail in it, unless it’s still green.
We would get to them using winter roads, kinda like the ice road truckers, when the swamps were frozen.
Do the birds like them?
Good. Let them do the research.
And they looked like the trees in the picture.
And a disclaimer for Bill O'Reilly: Just because I posted a picture of a KKK recruiter does not in any way mean I support the racist, supremacist ideology of the Klan or the Democrats that keep this living fossil in Congress.
Only the archaeopteryxes.
Do modern species like them as much as any other tree?
Dawn Redwoods or ‘Dinosaur Trees’ are really not all that different than the well known bald cypress. In fact the first Dawn Redwood fossils found in 1855 were at first mistaken for bald cypress fossils.
As far as living fossils go, my favorite is the ginkgo biloba tree, of which fossils from 270 million years ago have been found, predating dinosaurs, and it shares traits of cycads (that look like ferns or palms) with which the ginkgo is considered among the most primitive seed bearing plants.
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