redwood

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No, I don't have one in my yard (which is not serpentine), but I do have a dawn redwood which is doing quite well.

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  1. noun A very tall, evergreen, coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) native to the coastal ranges of southern Oregon and central and northern California, having small seed-bearing cones with peltate scales and unflattened branches.
  2. noun The soft reddish wood of this tree. Also called sequoia.
  3. noun Any of various woods having a reddish color or yielding a red dye.

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  • But on the branch of a redwood, against the green foliage and rusty-brown bark, it hadn't been easy to spot. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • The red was knocked right out of the redwood, and the sand flew from the beech. —  Ogre Ogre
  • The air is crisp with the smell of pine and redwood, and a faint tang of wood smoke hangs in the mist that creeps with little cat's feet up the street in the early daylight. —  The Bing Blog
  • No, I don't have one in my yard (which is not serpentine), but I do have a dawn redwood which is doing quite well. —  RealClimate
  • Perched in the upper branches of the redwood were the four remaining tree-sitters who had taken to the branches in an ultimately doomed effort to save the impressive collection of Coastal Live Oaks and other trees marked for destruction by the university. —  The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
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