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bulletdawn redwood  Metasequoia glyptostroboides  Cupressaceae or Taxodiaceae

Needles are opposite, flat, green and deciduous.  Small branchlets bearing foliage drop off in the fall.  Bark is red-brown and shreddy.  Seed cone is cylindrical with scales like small "wax lips."  Dawn redwood is a living fossil and is planted as an ornamental because of its beautiful pyramid-shaped crown.

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