Local Lorax

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One of my neighbors kindly potted and offered these seedlings for free. I took one of the dawn redwoods.

Metasequoia glyptostroboides, the dawn redwood, is a fast-growing, endangered deciduous conifer. It is the sole living species of the genus Metasequoia, one of three genera in the subfamily Sequoioideae of the family Cupressaceae. It now survives in the wild only in wet lower slopes and montane river and stream valleys in the border region of Hubei and Hunan provinces and Chongqing municipality in south-central China, notably in Lichuan county in Hubei. Although the shortest of the redwoods, it can grow to 167 ft (51 m) in height. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasequoia_glyptostroboides

There's a mature dawn redwood around the corner from my house.