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Is there a handy guide to tell them apart? I live in south Texas and we have a redwood tree in our backyard, which was planted by our previous owner when he moved here from California. I have no idea which type of redwood it is. It is not Texas redwood, though.


The quickest way for most is to look at the leaves/needles.

Coast Redwood needles look more like a fir tree - flat and extending from a central spine. Coast Redwood cones are about the size of a small marble, about the diameter of a fingernail.

Giant Sequoia needles look more like cypress or juniper - strings/ropes of needles. Giant Sequoia cones are about the size a large chicken egg yolk.

Dawn Redwoods are native to China, previously thought extinct and only recently (1940s?) discovered to be living. Their leaves look more similar to Coast Redwood. I have no idea how common they are in cultivation/landscaping.

Forgive the hotlink...to an image [0]. Image Source [1]

[0] https://landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu/sites/plantid7/files...

[1] https://landscapeplants.oregonstate.edu/plants/sequoia-sempe...


It might be a dawn redwood (metasequoia), we have them in NJ and they do really well here. They are originally from some random valley in China and were thought to be extinct to westerners (only showing in fossil record) until 1940's or so.


Thanks. I googled it but doesn't look the same.


Not difficult seeing the leaves and cones. Take some photos.



A appreciate the reference, but those https://archive.ph/ links never seem to work for where I am. Is it reachable for you?


Totally with you on this. I think the grid they used for the state facets is overly simplified. I use geofacets package from R to create such maps: https://dataviz.school/posts/2020-12-02-election-donuts-pics...


Article without paywall: https://rdcu.be/cCUZB


Interesting question! Stumps me tbh. But sounds more like a "get rich quick by screwing others" dad :)


Hi HN, I made this simple interactive visualization using R package Highcharter which brings JS library Highcharts to R.

Robert Kiyosaki has been warning about an imminent market crash for almost two years. He is an influential person so many people tend to follow his advice. Unfortunately many of his market crash predictions were made at the bottom of the market. Perhaps this can be used to time the market? :)


I created a shareable link from my university's account. I checked it, you will be able read the article in the browser but can't download it:

https://rdcu.be/cstep


You're great, Ash ;)


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