Description: Deciduous, large-sized, coniferous tree with a conical outline. Soft, bright green needles are held in opposite pairs in branchlets and give the leaves a feathery texture. The foliage turns an attractive shade of coppery-bronze in autumn. This tree is monoecious and will produce round, deep brown male cones in pendent Racemes. Female cones are paler brown and egg shaped.

Metasequoia glyptostroboides is a prehistoric tree that was first identified in fossil records and eventually discovered growing in Central China by Mr T. Kan, a Japanese botanist. Seeds were later collected and the tree was introduced into cultivation in 1948.