Redwoods are growing almost as fast in the UK as their Californian cousins

New study finds that giant sequoias add 70 cm of height and store 160 kg of carbon per year.

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neato burrito! I wasn't aware that redwoods existed outside of California
- There are also redwoods in New Zealand. Redwoods Forest, Whakarewarewa
  
  cool! im happy they are more prevalent. those are some cool trees
- China has their own flavor of sequoias too.
  
  The dawn redwood or metasequoia glyptostroboides, the only deciduous variety of redwood is super cool and they're so pretty!
  
  cool!
- I'm pretty sure you can grow them in michigan too - they just won't get very tall.
  
  There's also the "Dawn Redwood", thought extinct and discovered in China in 1940s, that is now planted all over the US.
- We have a few redwood forests in my state in Australia.
  
  And you have our Eucalyptus in your state.
  
  Fair trade I say.
- There's a rare phoenix sequoia that I know of.
  
  Seeds have been bought back from America and cultivated on large private estates.
My friends dad is a horticulturist who helps bring redwoods noth as climate changes. They are awesome!
I mean its basically the same environment, and Taxodiaceae were globally distributed not even that long ago. This really shouldn't be too surprising.
In NZ they grow like weeds.

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