![]() ![]() Spread stratified seed-sand mix on surface and mist into medium. Sow by preparing well draining moisture retentive acidic medium in a pot 15cm or deeper. Put in resealable baggie, put in fridge (2C), mark the calendar. Cold stratify by adding some moist coarse silica sand to the seed. How to germinate Metasequoia glyptostroboides seedĮasy to germinate, but does best with a brief 14 day cold stratification period. Habitat: full to semi sun well draining humus rich acidic moist soils.Dirr comments on its ornamental use in a wide array of landscape environments attesting to its hardiness and adaptability. Since then the knowledge base on these trees has increased dramatically. ![]() If you ever go to a botanical garden and see towering specimens of this living fossil, more than likely it was grown from one of these seed shipments. Major seed shipments in 1948 were sent to botanical gardens and universities for conservation world wide. Dramatic pollen catkins clothe the plant then drop when their purpose is done.įast growing, it does surprisingly well in standing water enough so it was called “ shui-sa”, or water fir by the locals. Lovely mid green foliage turns bronze before dropping in late October. Its most notable feature is the buttressed trunk base which starts developing on young trees. An amazing deciduous evergreen has a distinct feel of being from a different time. Thought to be extinct until the discovery in 1944 of a small community of trees in Central China’s Sichuan province. ![]()
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