And I have to say, I <3 Metasequoia too. This is a M. glyptostroboides being hugged by your very own JJ, on Boston Common:
In fact, I think this is the exact same one that Tai Haku showed us a couple of weeks ago (although his photo is much better because it shows the actual whole tree...).
Then, outside the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, there was a smaller one:
And it was showing its autumn foliage (which was good for me to see as otherwise I'd have returned to the UK absolutely convinced that my own Metasequoia was on its last legs):
We were back up to full size outside the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh (you might just be able to see my shortarse form next to it for scale):
Couldn't resist adding in an extra little picture of a baldcypress, Taxodium distichum in the cemetery at Gettysburg...
And this mobile phone mast did a reasonable job of masquerading as a (weirdly symmetrical) conifer of some description:
It was great to see so many great old trees. I think the world would be improved by the addition of more Metasequoia. They really are magnificent organisms. And I love, love, LOVE them.
In fact, I think this is the exact same one that Tai Haku showed us a couple of weeks ago (although his photo is much better because it shows the actual whole tree...).
Then, outside the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, there was a smaller one:
And it was showing its autumn foliage (which was good for me to see as otherwise I'd have returned to the UK absolutely convinced that my own Metasequoia was on its last legs):
We were back up to full size outside the Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh (you might just be able to see my shortarse form next to it for scale):
Couldn't resist adding in an extra little picture of a baldcypress, Taxodium distichum in the cemetery at Gettysburg...
And this mobile phone mast did a reasonable job of masquerading as a (weirdly symmetrical) conifer of some description:
It was great to see so many great old trees. I think the world would be improved by the addition of more Metasequoia. They really are magnificent organisms. And I love, love, LOVE them.
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