| Scientific Name: | Sequoiadendron giganteum |
| Common Name: | Sierra redwood, giant sequoia |
| Family Name: | Cupressaceae |
| Origin: | U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | > 30m x > 25m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Stiffly upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - widely |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant, Wind break |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Scale-like, Alternate, Imbricate, Leathery, Glabrous, Lustrous, Ovate, Other, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Yellow, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Green, Brown, Aug-Sep-Oct-Nov-Dec, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Bark thick, cinnamon red, spongy; branches generally horizontal to downward-sweeping with upturned ends, branchlets cord-like; leaves overlapping in three longitudinal rows, scale-like with sharply-pointed awls that are 3-6mm long towards the branch tips; seed cones egg-shaped mature reddish-brown, 4-9cm long; seeds 3-9 per scale, 3-6mm long with two wings of unequal lengths; seedlings with (3-)4(-6) cotyledons. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/cu/Sequoiadendron.php' target='_blank'>Conifers.org</a> | |