METASEQUOIA glyptostroboides

'Dawn Redwood'. A strong-growing, vigorous,20-25m, deciduous tree of conical habit when young, with shaggy, cinnamon-brown bark. Leaves linear, flattened, borne in 2 opposite ranks on short, deciduous branchlets. They are bright larch-green during summer, becoming tawny in large racemes or panicles. Cones pendulous, on long stalks, globose or cylindrical. It has proved quite hardy and is equally successful in industrial areas. (5)