• BOMBS@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    neato burrito! I wasn’t aware that redwoods existed outside of California

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          6 months ago

          They’re mostly planted outside of CA but they can survive and thrive in many places!

          It’s really interesting how tiny the native range of certain species of plants are, I have a Port Orford cedar in my yard that only natively grows on the coast right at the border of Oregon and California.

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      6 months ago

      I’m pretty sure you can grow them in michigan too - they just won’t get very tall.

      There’s also the “Dawn Redwood”, thought extinct and discovered in China in 1940s, that is now planted all over the US.

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      6 months ago

      We have a few redwood forests in my state in Australia.

      And you have our Eucalyptus in your state.

      Fair trade I say.

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      6 months ago

      There’s a rare phoenix sequoia that I know of.

      Seeds have been bought back from America and cultivated on large private estates.

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    6 months ago

    I mean its basically the same environment, and Taxodiaceae were globally distributed not even that long ago. This really shouldn’t be too surprising.