Thanks @BlueBerry.
My neighbor will think im crazy if i go full paparazzi on this pine tree in his front yard lol.
Barkslip says its Pinus Strobus ‘pendula’. I searched on google for that variety and it seems to be it.
Although the trees on google was not nearly as large i can see it is identical to the neighbors tree.
Those Dawns look great! I’m going to keep limbing mine up in years to come until the canopy is about 8-10 feet off the ground.
The Larch / Tamarack like the boggy area of our property, but they’re also growing here and there on the high and dry spots. There’s one down on a cousins property that I will mill up this spring. Looking forward to having some Larch lumber, it’s a huge tree.
If it is pinus strobus, then it will have 5 needles per cluster.
I just couldn’t verify…although I agree it could well be pinus strobus ‘pendula’.
ive found in the past working with tamarack, its best to use it while its still green. one its easier to screw/ nail in and 2 it warps like a mother as it dries if not screwed/ nailed down. man its a heavy wood! my cousin has a mill and he says it dulls his blades quicker than even hardwoods.
Pulled up this old discussion from January by accident, but excited to read about Dawn Redwoods. Paul took this shot of me in front of ours today. I wanted to figure out how tall it is, but thought the picture would describe it better. Thought I would share. When we first moved here someone at McDonalds asked if I knew about the special tree in my yard (I had no idea what they were talking about) it’s in very early stages of waking up and is quite beautiful in the summer. As someone stated, the bark is amazing.
That would be a Dawn Redwood!
Dawn Redwood used to dominate much of the landscape of North America. There’s fossil records of it all over the place; way up into Canada toward the poles and east to west across America. It was a once dominent tree. Of course it’s from China, too. A 1950’s expedition and they found it growing in a little village somewhere.
There have been a few other discoveries. One in your neighborhood Regina, Betula uber, The Roundleaf birch. I have one on growing on my property that began fruiting last year at about 8-years of age from a 1-gallon pot.
Another I can’t grow is a Cupressus (Cypress) that was found in the 70’s in Vietnam. Cupressus vietnamensis which threw Alaskan cypress into the Genus Cupressus from formerly Chamaecyparis (false cypress). Cone ID of the Vietnamese cypress showed that they had Alaskan weeping cypress in the wrong Genus all this time.
So yeah, some real cool stuff. I’ve seen some photos of Dawn Redwood’s my friend planted probably near immediately once they were available in the United States. He has a horticultural degree and might of had connections to acquire his. They’re planted in a forested setting and all are over 100’ tall and very skinny.
Congrats on your very special tree!
That’s a beauty…I have 3 of them growing on my property right now…much smaller than yours.
A neighbor of mine has one of these Dawn Redwood I believe. There are too few deciduous conifers used in the landscape in suburbia, imho (though no one is really asking me).
I had planted a larch at my previous house, but it was prone to breaking in storms and under snow-cover and it was removed by the next owners pretty quickly. I always loved the soft “needles” in the spring.
Scott
The way to know Dawn Redwood from Bald Cypress is simple.
Dawn Redwood has leaves/needles opposite each other.
Bald Cypress has alternating leaves/needles.
Larches are on the same spectrum of spectacular but cannot handle hot summers nor a lot of humidity. Any Larch I’ve planted has died where I am in IL. If I were north toward the WI. state line with IL, then I’d be fine to grow Larch.
i have a 8ft. european larch / tamarack i planted 3 yrs. ago in the front yard. grows even faster than our native tamarack. it loves the low wet spot i put it in. i have it pruned nice. its a beautiful golden yellow in late oct. i put xmas lights on it.
What parts of the country do you think these could repopulate in now if we replanted them?
@Rosdonald That is an amazing tree!
They do not self re-generate here in IL. I do not know the answer to that question while it has been something posed that I contributed an answer towards, however, there were no other American people responses (this was 15-years ago on GardenWeb/Houzz) of self-seeding. It’s not like we were a bunch of scientists, however, the person that posed the question a Brittish Conifer Dendrologist Michael Frankis was looking for responses worldwide. None came in from European conifer folks, either. I don’t believe it was regenerating over in Britain, either.
Well that is sad but still awesome that you guys started the trials.
It would be cool if we could get a bunch of universities at least in the us canada and mexico to try to repopulate as many redwoods as we can. They are such a majestic tree its crazy sitting under in awe of the huge ones in california and pretty heartbreaking how many we have lost to fires and mismanagement.
The biggest trees in the world grew in IL once. It’s Taxodium distichum, Bald cypress.
Wabash Valley. I have a friend who lives there and has searched on foot in Clark And Lawrence counties where they were once reported and not a single one exists, any-longer. They all got the axe.
The largest trees in the world in IL, once. It makes me think that was thee place for the hugest dinosaurs. It was densely populated in Dawn Redwood, also.
Dax
I think cypress also has those knee like roots. At least I’ve seen pics of the same
I have a very large gingko tree also. Someone who lived here had a great fondness for unusual trees. My house was built in 1885 so could have been any of several owners. There were about 8.
Thanks. Congrats to your friend also. That’s awesome!
