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In the News (Tue 8 Dec 09)

  
  THE METASEQUOIA FLORA AND ITS PHYTOGEOGRAPHIC SIGNIFICANCE
Four genera (Pinus and Larix, of the Pinaceae; Juniperus, of the Cupressaceae; and Taxus, of the Taxaceae) represented in the metasequoia flora are widespread in the Northern Hemisphere.
The characteristics of the metasequoia flora and the distributional patterns exhibited by the gymnosperms growing in association with Metasequoia glyptostroboides have significant implications concerning phytogeography and the evolutionary history of the vegetation.
That the metasequoia area is ecologically diverse is evidenced by the complexity of its flora.
flora.huh.harvard.edu /china/Harvard_Papers/hu-shiu-ying1980.htm   (12902 words)

  
 Metasequoia glyptostroboides description
He realized that two species formerly assigned to Sequoia were distinct from that genus, having similar cones but with decussately arranged scales and a delicate peduncle with scale leaves at the base, whilst the deciduous foliage shoots were somewhat like those of Taxodium.
Mainly through the generosity of the Arnold Arboretum in sharing its seeds and seedlings, Metasequoia was soon propagated and distributed in many parts of North America and Europe as well as in eastern Asia" (Dallimore et al.
Metasequoia glyptostroboides -- its present status in central China.
www.conifers.org /cu/me   (1531 words)

  
 Introduction to Dawn (or Chinese) Redwood
As a fossil, Metasequoia was recognized as a separate species from the coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) only in the mid-twentieth century, by a researcher in Japan.
Metasequoia glyptostroboides is a tall, symmetrical tree with a straight and slim truck, upswept branches.
Metasequoia does not sprout from the root, so the shape of a free-standing tree is clear.
www.icogitate.com /~tree/dawn.redwood.intro.ac09.htm   (675 words)

  
 Unasylva - No. 143 - Forestry extension, making it work - China - Metasequoia: the national fossil tree
It is an excellent species for afforestation, and the planting of Metasequoia in quantity could play an important role in fuming the land green, increasing timber output and beautifying the environment.
The Metasequoia is a large deciduous tree which can reach 37 m in height and 2.2 m in breast diameter.
Seedling cultivation by cutting is, at present, the best way for the reproduction of Metasequoia, because there are very few mother trees and the yield of seeds is limited: in fact, seedlings cultured by sowing cannot meet the needs of large-scale afforestation.
www.fao.org /docrep/q5240E/q5240e06.htm   (972 words)

  
 METASEQUOIA CREEK
Metasequoia Creek, is located 30 miles east of Portland, Oregon, on the south side of the Columbia River.
Metasequoia Creek was named during the "Winter 1999" meeting of the "Oregon Geographic Names Board", due to fossils in it's stream-bed.
The dominant flora is Metasequoia occidentalis, also known as the "Dawn Redwood".
www.geocities.com /metasequoiacr   (234 words)

  
 Metasequoia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Dawn Redwood) is a fast growing tree in the conifer family Cupressaceae native to the Sichuan-Hubei region of China.
Metasequoia has proved an easy tree to grow in temperate regions, and is now widely planted as an ornamental tree.
Metasequoia fossils are known from many areas in the Northern Hemisphere; over 20 fossil species have been named, but are now treated in just three species, M.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metasequoia   (489 words)

  
 metaseq.net
Metasequoia is a polygon modeler for 3DCG and game development.
Metasequoia is a low price of shareware (about $45).
Metasequoia Ver1.0 has been released in May 1999, and hundreds registered users are in Japan.
www.metaseq.net /english/index.html   (343 words)

  
 Arboretum de Villardebelle
"The plant fossil record provides evidence that the genus Metasequoia was widely distributed and experienced a wide range of climatic and environmental conditions throughout the Northern Hemisphere from the early Late Cretaceous to the Plio-Pleistocene.
It is the most up-to-date and comprehensive reference source for the genus and the authors have sought to incorporate obscure, hard-to-get and non-English reference sources.
This book presents a definitive oveview of fossil and living Metasequoia and was written by sixteen of the world’s experts on this important genus.
www.pinetum.org /Bk-Metasequoia.htm   (342 words)

  
 Digital Art by Bryde - Metasequoia Informations
Metasequoia Tutorial - a basic overview about the program.
Metasequoia Workshops - the example is an airplane for a flight simulator.
I also have compiled a tutorial from Monsoon, member of 3D Commune, who has written it as an answer to a question on the 3D Application forum there.
www.angelfire.com /la/bryde/metasequoia.html   (365 words)

  
 Metasequoia I - Survival of Metasequoia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Metasequoia tree requires large amounts of heavy fog to survive.
The Metasequoia also known as the "Gold Rush" and the "Dawn Redwood" has one of the most unique survival strategies.
Metasequoia trees have a unusual chemical composition that is extremely untasteful and poisonous to normal tree pests, such as termites and ants.
web.bryant.edu /~langlois/metasequoia/survival.htm   (226 words)

  
 RedOrbit - Science - Environmental Implications of the Preservation of Chloroplast Ultrastructure in Eocene Metasequoia ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Abstract.-Batches of freshly fallen Metasequoia glyptostroboides litter were subjected to one of 12 degradation regimes varying in temperature, pH, and oxygen availability for a three-month decay period.
Samples of green M. glyptostroboides leaves collected in May from the Morris Arboretum were frozen and kept in darkness for a period of three months to qualitatively assess the impact of freezing on the condition of the chloroplast membranes.
The findings also indicate that the process of senescence in Metasequoia is not completely efficient in terms of chloroplast dismantlement, although a study contrasting the persistence of ultrastructural detail after senescence between deciduous conifers and angiosperms would be necessary to fully ascertain the implications of this experiment.
www.redorbit.com /news/display?id=233873&source=r_science   (4017 words)

  
 Metasequoia Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
It was assumed that the Metasequoia had been extinct for millions of years.
A living Metasequoia had been found, a mere five years after the genus - assumed to be extinct - was discovered.
The news of the Metasequoia discovery spread as quickly as their seeds were sown.
www.skidmore.edu /~m_belsky/MetaStory.htm   (847 words)

  
 Metasequoia documentation v1.0
Before you start using Metasequoia, go to ‘file’ in the menu system and click basic mode if there is a tick next to it.
Metasequoia is a simple program to use once you know what things do.
Metasequoia also lets you customize the command panel by changing what the buttons look like.
homepage.ntlworld.com /papermodels/meta/docs/main.htm   (937 words)

  
 Unasylva - No. 143 - La vulgarisation forestière et ses exigences - Metasequoia: L'arbre fossile national
Metasequoia glyptostroboides est une essence très adaptable et à croissance rapide.
Le Metasequoia est un arbre à feuilles caduques qui peut atteindre 22 m de hauteur et 2,2 m de diamètre à hauteur d'homme.
Le bouturage est actuellement la meilleure méthode de multiplication du Metasequoia parce qu'il existe très peu d'arbres mères et que le rendement en graines est limité.
www.fao.org /docrep/q5240f/q5240f06.htm   (965 words)

  
 Metasequoia I - Home Page
The Metasequoia is a large fast-growing Chinese monoecious tree having flat bright-green deciduous leaves and small globular cones.
The Metasequoia was first described from fossil records in 1941.
The Metasequoia is a large tree that reaches from seventy five to one hundred feet tall.
web.bryant.edu /~langlois/metasequoia/metaseq1.htm   (331 words)

  
 The Redwood Family
This tree was later identified as the long-lost Metasequoia by H.H. Hu.
All genera within the Taxodiaceae family are evergreen with the exceptions of Glyptostrobus, Metasequoia, and Taxodium.
The Metasequoia Story by Donald R. Hendricks, Director, The Dawes Arboretum, Newark, Ohio.
home.hiwaay.net /~redwood/rwfamily.html   (955 words)

  
 InfoHub - Metasequoia occidentalis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Metasequoia occidentalis is a very old tree species.
Metasequoia occidentalis grows in China and in some botanical gardens.
Eocene and Oligocene fossils of Metasequoia occidentalis have often been found in areas where large lakes once existed.
www.infohub.com /forums/printthread.php?t=5491   (139 words)

  
 Metasequoia I - Conservation of Metasequoia
The best way to prevent the destruction of the Metasequoia trees is to educate the people that interact with them on a daily basis.
Our marketing plan would mainly target educating the youth of the land where the Metasequoia thrives, but would not leave out the elders, since they are the ones responsible for destroying the Metasequoia forests.
We feel that having the children get involved in the process of saving and educating each other about the Metasequoias will be more effective them having a scientist or researcher come in to lecture to them.
web.bryant.edu /~langlois/metasequoia/conservation.htm   (414 words)

  
 Dawn Redwood (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Most of the autumn leaves were driven from the stems in early December by one hard night of rain.
In western North American Metasequoia was a member of rich Paleogene forests comprised of species such as Liquidambar, Ginkgo, Ulmus, and Cercidiphyllum, species long absent from the dry circumstances that exist over much of this region today.
We cannot today, weave for ourselves a completely satisfactory answer to the disappearance of Metasequoia and a date is only a broad guess.
www.nativeson.com.cob-web.org:8888 /metaseq.html   (789 words)

  
 metasequoia.org
Metasequoia, Dawn Redwood, Chinese Redwood, Water Fir, Shui Shan
On the unsolved mystery of Metasequoia (Chinese with English Summary 2003), The Chronology of The "Living Fossil" Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Taxodiaceae) - A Review (1943-2003) - Chinese, Deutsch, English, Espanol, French, Japanese, Russian....
The history of the discovery and initial seed dissemination of Metasequoia glyptostroboides, The "Living Fossil" - Aliso (2004), Further Studies on the Natural History of Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Taxodiaceae) Acta Botanica Yunnanica 28(5): 493-504, 2006 Chinese with English Summary,...
www.metasequoia.org   (449 words)

  
 pollen grain morphology metasequoia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Occasionally a ridge or rim sepparates the thick and thin portions of the grain.
The pollen of Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Dawn Redwood) is similar to that of the other taxodiaceous grains (Taxodiaceae and Cupressaceae are combined in recent floras, even though their pollen is distinct).
Metasequoia glyptostoroboides is a "living fossil" whose foliage is common in late-Cretaceous through Pleistocene sediments of the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in the early-Tertiary of the Arctic.
www.geo.arizona.edu /palynology/pid00010.html   (218 words)

  
 Time Chart of Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides)
Metasequoia survives in China in a region protected by mountains from bitterly cold winds in winter and scorchingly hot winds in summer.
Some are given to Dr. Wan-Chun Cheng, leading to the first written scientific record of living Metasequoia (in 1944 by Hu and Cheng).
American paleobotonist Dr. Ralph Chaney's expedition reaches the village of Shuishaba, where Metasequoia is called shui-sa or water pine.
www.icogitate.com /~tree/dawn.redwood.timeline.ac10.htm   (560 words)

  
 Metasequoia
The giant Metasequoia Tree thrives in remote areas of China today.
According to the evolutionary time-table, the Metasequoia disappeared sixty million years ago.
There is no record of this tree in the fossil records...but it lives today.
www.childrensbiblestudy.com /TheoriesTested/Metasequoia.htm   (81 words)

  
 Ralph E   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
However, Merrill's efforts to distribute seed and cuttings had virtually assured the survival of the species in cultivation and it was soon growing in temperate areas around the world.
The largest and oldest Metasequoia tree on campus is located in the Beal Garden behind the library.
In 1968, the graduate students of the Department of Botany and Plant Pathology invited Professor Ralph W. Chaney to the MSU campus for a series of seminars.
taggart.glg.msu.edu /bot335/redwood5.htm   (1146 words)

  
 metasequoia
Qualifiée par R.Chaney comme 'La découverte botanique du XXème siècle', le metasequoia a une histoire fascinante.
Le plus vieux metasequoia de la ville, planté près du rectorat en 1968 (?) par le recteur Chevalier (?), mesure environ 20,5m pour 84cm de circonférence à hauteur d'homme.
Ci-contre: Metasequoia 'number 2', près de Xiaohe, Hubei, Chine, 2002, 40m env.
monsite.wanadoo.fr /metasequoia   (102 words)

  
 The Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania
From their very first visit to the Arboretum, Mensing and McQueen were fascinated by the Metasequoia glyptostroboides (dawn redwood) at the Arboretum, especially in the grove along the East Brook in the Butcher sculpture garden.
A narrative sound piece is installed on the observation platform with history and botanical insights on Metasequoia trees, told through a fanciful dialogue between two characters, a Metasequoia tree and a bird.
Sound projecting units are installed inconspicuously on the viewing platform so that visitors will hear sound amplified at several points on their journey up into the trees.
www.business-services.upenn.edu /arboretum/metametasequoia2.html   (529 words)

  
 Botanical Professional Expedition Ernest Wilson
Metasequoia has maintained its crossover appeal to botanists, paleobotanits, geneticists, horticulturists, foresters, ecologists, conservationists, as well as historians of science.
Metasequoia held in its native country with a field trip to its homeland is intended to foster the exchange of scientific ideas, to promote international collaboration, and to provide new information to the conservation of this fascinating genus.
Metasequoia discussed at this meeting is planned as one of the outcomes of this symposium.
www.100gogo.com /frpnt.htm   (2394 words)

  
 Metasequoia glyptostroboides - Dawn Redwood
Metasequoia glyptostroboides is a native from China that was thought to be extinct, don't worry it was rediscovered in the 1940's.
Metasequoia glyptostroboides prefers a well drained soil with regular water.
This is not a good tree for dry areas or coastal areas as the foliage will burn from dry heat and salt.
www.magnoliagardensnursery.com /productdescrip/Metasequoia_Dawn.html   (168 words)

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