This deciduous conifer has a straight trunk with red bark that turns grey-black with age and comes away in stringy strips. It has graceful spreading branches that form a conical habit with small bright green linear leaves turn yellow-brown during autumn.
 
Hardiness zones 5 to 10

Metasequoia glyptostroboides  was thought to be extinct until it was discovered in 1941 in eastern Szechwan and Hupeh provinces in China. Since then it has been propagated worldwide. It prefers a well draind deep moist soil in a open sunny position and is frost and snow tolerant but drought tender.

Dawn Redwood is grown for its foliage and its conical habit. It is planted in parks and large gardens as a specimen tree or used as a focal point in a formal garden. It is also planted along borders as a summer screen and establishes in 4 to 7 years then matures in 200 years. ID 223

Metasequoia (me-ta-se-KWOY-a) glyptostroboides (glip-to-stro-BOI-deez)

The Greek prefix meta, “associated with”, implies that this is not a true Sequoia; “glyptostroboides”, from Greek glypto, “carved”, + strobus, “a fruit”, + oides, “resembling” - thus, the cones look like wood carvings.

Cupressaceae (kew-press-AY-see-ee)
Coniferous Trees