The protest was forcibly suppressed by armed troops supported by tanks on 4 June, 1998. Reporters and Western diplomats there that day estimated that hundreds to thousands of protesters were killed in the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and as many as 10,000 were arrested.Once thought to be extinct, Dawn redwood was discovered in 1944 in China, soon after million year old fossils from Metasequoias were found in Japan. Also it is not clear what happened to the seeds received by Dilworth in 1948, possibly some of the dawn redwood trees around the Peavy Forest Science Center are derived from these seeds.Ī smaller tree stands to the north of the large dawn redwood, it was planted on Jto memorialize those affected by the violent crackdown on protesting students in Tiananmen Square, Beijing ( Daily Barometer, June 20, 1991). Hard evidence as to the origin of all three trees is lacking. Some have conjectured that the two large dawn redwood trees in front of the Peavy Lodge in the Peavy Arboretum are also part of the gift from Chaney. It is often presumed that large dawn redwood in front (east) of Community Hall is one of the trees gifted to Dean Dunn in 1949. Martel, head of the department of landscape architecture, was charged with selecting a site suitable for the young trees. The seedling trees were about a foot tall and were derived from seeds Chaney planted in April 1948. It is reported in the Daily Barometer, April, 26, 1949, that Chaney gave three rare trees (called Dawn Sequoia in the article) to Paul Dunn, dean of the school of forestry, for planting on the Oregon State campus. Merrill, the Director of the Arboretum, for Merrill received such seeds from a Chinese scientist in January 1948 and quickly redistributed then to institutions and individuals in the U.S, including Chaney). (It is likely that the seeds from Arnold Arboretum were actually sent by Dr. Chaney, a paleobotanist at the University of California, during an expedition to China earlier in the year. The article further states that the seeds were collected by Dr. According to Dilworth the ancient trees would soon be growing in the Peavy arboretum north of Corvallis. Dilworth, assistant professor of forest management, recently received a packet of dawn redwood seeds from Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts. The Daily Barometer (June 3, 1948) reported that Professor J.R.

campus: two trees, young and older, northeast of Community Hall The Story of the Discovery and Naming of Dawn RedwoodĬorvallis: tree in Riverfront Park, just south of the Harrison Ave.Metasequoia flourished in the Miocene epoch of 25 to 5 million years ago and left its record embedded in rocks across the Oregon landscape. State Fossil of Oregon: The Oregon legislature designated the Metasequoia as the official state fossil in 2005. 'Miss Grace' - more or less ground sprawling, but if staked, a small tree with weeping branches.'Gold Rush' - bright yellow foliage in spring and retains much of the color throughout the summer.

Several cultivars are available, including: Hardy to USDA Zone 4 Native to Sichuan (Szechuan, Szechwan), China. Easy to transplant, performs best in moist, well-drained, slightly acid soils. Bark reddish brown when young, darker, fissuring, and exfoliating in strips when mature. Needles 15 mm long, opposite, straight or slightly curved, bright green above, light green below. Deciduous conifer, 70-100 ft (21-30 m), excurrent, pyramidal, flat topped when mature.

Metasequoia glyptostroboides gold rush