![]() After the war, Professor Cheng of China’s National Central University sent an expedition to the Szechwan Province in 1946 for a complete study. Since China was in the midst of war, making study expeditions impossible, these redwoods were pretty much ignored at the time. Then in 1944 a forester with China’s National Central University stumbled upon a small grove of redwoods in the rice paddies of China’s Szechwan Province, not even knowing what they were at the time. ![]() ![]() The Dawn Redwood was first described in Japan in 1941 by Shigeru Miki, who thought he had a discovered the fossils of a tree long since extinct. The story reads like a Nancy Drew mystery. Were it not for good luck and perseverance, this living fossil may well have been lost to extinction forever. Not considered a native species to Kentucky, the Dawn Redwood once was a very common tree in our landscape - 50 to 100 million years ago when the dinosaurs roamed.įossil records show that Dawn Redwoods were common across the Northern Hemisphere, including North America, Greenland and Europe.
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