California redwood

California Redwood, Coast Redwood
Scientific Name: Sequoia sempervirens (D. Don) Endl.
Synonym: Steinhauera sempervirens, Taxodium sempervirens
Family: Taxodiaceae ...

The tallest California redwood still standing is 359 ft (109.4 m) high and grows in Humboldt Redwoods State Park. Larger ones have been harvested.

California Redwood [English]: Sequoia sempervirens
California Rock Daisy [English]: Perityle californica
California Rock-Daisy [English]: Perityle megalocephala
California Rock-Jasmine [English]: Androsace elongata ...

China's deciduous dawn redwood tree (Metasequoia) is believed to be a related species and is perhaps an ancestor of the California redwood.

Coastal Redwood, Coast Redwood, California Redwood
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A single species (see below).

The only tree anywhere in North America that can conceivably exceed its height is the California Redwood, but what many people don't know is that the largest coastal Douglas-firs were as large as the largest giant redwood today left standing.

Sequoia sempervirens. California Redwood.
There are more
Cypress Family pictures
at the Texas A&M Biometrics Experimental Database.

Sequoia sempervirens (California Redwood or Coast Redwood) "Informal Upright" style bonsai tree from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

See also: Redwood, Green, Evergreen, Sequoia sempervirens, Conifer