Scientific name: Sequoiadendron giganteum

Common name:  Sierra redwood

Family name: Cupressaceae

Useful cultivars and selections:

USDA hardiness zone: 6

Mature height and spread: over 25m tall and wide

Form: pyramidal, dense

Water use: moderate

Soil requirements: well-drained

Leaf arrangement: scale-like. Opposite.

Fall colour: none

Flower/cone/fruit description: brown cones

Limitations: very massive; not for residential. Needs heat to release seeds.

Suitable uses: wind break. Fire adapted. Parks.

Quick ID: conifer. Tree. Evergreen. U.S. Scale-like, imbricate, opposite (awl shaped and overlapping). Cord-like branchlets. Sharp feeling. Larger cones than sempervirens. Smells like black licorice/anise when needles crushed.