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Sequoia sempervirens (D.Don) Endl.

Coast redwood (en), Séquoia à feuilles d'if (fr), Séquoia sempervirent (fr), Séquoia toujours vert (fr), Séquoia Redwood (fr)

Species

Gymnosperms > Cupressales > Cupressaceae > Sequoia

Characteristics

Trees to ca. 110 m; trunk to 9 m diam.; crown conic and monopodial when young, narrowed conic in age. Bark reddish brown, to ca. 35 cm thick, fibrous, ridged and furrowed. Branches downward sweeping to slightly ascending. Leaves 1--30 mm, generally with stomates on both surfaces, the free portion to 30 mm, those on leaders, ascending branchlets, and fertile shoots divergent to strongly appressed, short-lanceolate to deltate, those on horizontally spreading to drooping branchlets mostly linear to linear-lanceolate, divergent and in 2 ranks, with 2 prominent, white abaxial stomatal bands. Pollen cones nearly globose to ovoid, 2--5 mm, borne singly on short terminal or axillary stalks. Seed cones 1.3--3.5 cm. Seeds flattened, 3--6 mm, leathery. 2 n = 66.
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Large or very large tree. Bark reddish brown, shedding in large plates. Shoots green for 2-3 years. Lvs of lateral shoots 1.2-2.6 cm × 1.3-3 mm (earliest and latest-formed lvs usually smaller), linear to linear-oblong; stomatal bands white, broad, almost extending to midrib; apex sharply mucronate, mainly acute on cone-bearing shoots. ♂ strobili 3-4 mm diam. ♀ cones 2-2.5 cm diam., often pendulous. Disc (scale umbo) prominently ridged and wrinkled; mucro very small. Seed 5-6 mm long, elliptic to ± oblong.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
Pollination anemogamy
Spread anemochory
Mature width (meter) 4.0 - 8.0
Mature height (meter) 76.2 - 110.0
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 1.8
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Deep well-drained soils on flat land and slopes in the coastal fog belt below 600 metres.
Light 4-7
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 4-6
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-9

Usage

Uses afforestation dye environmental use fiber material medicinal wood
Edible -
Therapeutic use Blood Medicine (bark), Liver Aid (bark), Venereal Aid (bark), Ear Medicine (leaf), Stimulant (sap), Tonic (sap), Ear Medicine (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) 7 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) -13
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Habit

Sequoia sempervirens habit picture by Loic Vallée (cc-by-sa)
Sequoia sempervirens habit picture by Miroslav Cikan (cc-by-sa)
Sequoia sempervirens habit picture by Dieter Albrecht (cc-by-sa)

Leaf

Sequoia sempervirens leaf picture by Anthony VALET (cc-by-sa)
Sequoia sempervirens leaf picture by fil escande (cc-by-sa)
Sequoia sempervirens leaf picture by eden (cc-by-sa)

Flower

Sequoia sempervirens flower picture by Jacques Fortin (cc-by-sa)
Sequoia sempervirens flower picture by Riccardo Perina (cc-by-sa)

Fruit

Sequoia sempervirens fruit picture by pascal revault (cc-by-sa)
Sequoia sempervirens fruit picture by Catherine Bonhomme (cc-by-sa)
Sequoia sempervirens fruit picture by Francois Mansour (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Sequoia sempervirens world distribution map, present in Brazil, France, New Zealand, and United States of America

Conservation status

Sequoia sempervirens threat status: Endangered

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:263741-1
WFO ID wfo-0000437871
COL ID 4WSQG
BDTFX ID 63108
INPN ID 122785
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Steinhauera sempervirens Sequoia sempervirens Sequoia taxifolia Sequoia pyramidata Taxodium nutkaense Taxodium sempervirens Gigantabies taxifolia Condylocarpus sempervirens Sequoia sempervirens f. adpressa Sequoia sempervirens f. glauca Sequoia sempervirens f. pendula Sequoia religiosa Schubertia sempervirens Sequoia sempervirens var. nana-pendula Sequoia sempervirens var. adpressa Sequoia sempervirens var. albospica Sequoia sempervirens var. glauca Sequoia sempervirens var. pendula
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