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Metasequoia, Dawn Redwood, Chinese Redwood, Water Fir, Shui Shan
We are providing information to those of who are interested in the Chinese Plants, the Natural History and the Chinese Culture,
with all related resources you need from that ancient orient country - China!
News (May 10, 2013) Principal Investigator Positions of Botany in Shanghai, China, English & Chinese
News (Sept 15, 2011) The Outline of Taxonomic Literature of Eastern Asian Higher Plants, Contents
News (March 1, 2010) Principal Investigator Positions of Botany in Shanghai, China, English Chinese
News (Jan 12, 2010): Request for cooperation on Metasequoia/Dawn Redwood Museum - for detail, please contact the webmaster of this site below, and thank you!
News (Jan 12, 2010): Third International Metasequoia Symposium (Osaka, Japan, August 3-8, 2010) - Detail
New Book: Collected Works on Zheng Wanjun (Cheng Wan-Chun, 1904-1983), Science Press, Beijing; 684 p, 2008; ISBN: 978-7-03-023072-0 (Chinese).
Book Review: Acta Botanica Yunnanica 31(4): 386-388, 2009 (Chinese), pdf
New Book: The Chronology of Dr. Hsen-Hsu Hu's Biography (1894-1968), Jiangxi Education Press, Nanchang; 688 p, 2007; ISBN 978-7-5392-4742-7 (Chinese).
Book Introduction: Journal of Systematics and Evolution 46(5): 793-794, 2008 (Chinese), pdf
A worldwide Survey of Cultivated Metasequoia glyptostroboides Hu & Cheng (Taxodiaceae/Cupressaceae) from 1947-2007
has been published with 2535 data from nearly fifty countries collected in every continents of the world by July 25, 2007,
especially from West Europe and North America. We sincerely thank you for your kindly help and friendly effort,
and made this happened. The whole report is available by request. We continue to collect the data,
and your support and help are much appreciated, especially whose from the developing countries
in Africa, Asia, East, South and Southeast Europe, Central and South America - Thank you very much in advance!
Request for Cultivated Information of Metasequoia glyptostroboides worldwide in your local area, either a country,
state or garden / arboretum sightings. Records can pertain to either a single tree or numerous individuals on a plantation.
Please email us at jinshuangma@gmail.com with it's current height and circumstance at
DBH, with the date of cultivation, as well as detailed locality where you are! - Information will be combined into next report
of a worldwide survey currently being conducted, and your contribution will be recorded on the natural history of Metasequoia glyptostroboides.
New Poster @ July 17, 2008: Metasequoia - the living fossil: native and cultivated: 1948-2008 pdf (14.64 mb)
New Book: Metasequoia: Back from the Brink? An Update - Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Metasequoia and Associated Plants
August 6?0, 2006, Edited by Hong Yang and Leo J. Hickey .
Where does Metasequoia come from? -
China, "Mother of Gardens"! Who said this? - Western
plant collectors on the Chinese Plants: E. Breschneider, E. H. M. Cox, G. Forrest, R. Fortune, A. Henry, F. Kingdow Ward, R. Lancaster, L. A. Lauener, J. Rock,
E. H. Wilson - "Chinese" Wilson ! ...
How was Metasequoia found? - The Mystery since 1941 ...
Fossil - Shigeru Miki (1941), First Specimen -
Zhan Wang (1943),
The Type Collection - Chi-Ju Hseuh (1946),
First Report in China
- Hsen-Hsu Hu (1946) ,
First Report in USA - Ralph W. Chaney (1947),
Detail Report in USA -
Hsen-Hsu Hu (1948),
The Living species described by Hsen-Hsu Hu and Wan-Chun Cheng (1948), ...
On the unsolved mystery of Metasequoia - Chinese with English Summary 2003, and
Japanese with English Summary 2003.
The Chronology of The "Living Fossil" Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Taxodiaceae) - A Review (1943-2003) -
Chinese,
Deutsch,
English,
Espanol,
Japanese.
The history of the discovery and initial seed dissemination of Metasequoia glyptostroboides, The "Living Fossil" -
Aliso (2004), Further Studies on the Natural History of Metasequoia
glyptostroboides (Taxodiaceae), Acta Botanica Yunnanica 2006 , A Worldwide Survey of
Cultivated Metasequoia glyptostroboides Hu & Cheng (Taxodiaceae: Cupressaceae) from 1947 to 2007, Bulletin of the
Peabody Museum of Natural History 48(2):235?53, October 2007 ...
How to travel to the Hometown of Metasequoia? It's very easy today, no matter where you are from, by Airplane, Boat or Bus/Car ...
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Acknowledgment: The interesting story from our reader who visited the Hometown: The Emails from our readers.
This website are helped by many friends / colleagues worldwide ...
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