[Verginius Rufus]

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.

[WFTR]

Do the birds like them?

[Oberon]

When I was at Virginia Tech, we knew these as "Dawn Redwoods." There were several examples growing on campus, and I knew them because of helping my then-girlfriend (now wife) study for her Dendrology class. One side of the index card said "Dawn Redwood" on it, and on the other side was Metasequoia glyptostroboides.

And they looked like the trees in the picture.