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unusual facts about coast redwood



Canoga Park High School

Among the school's features are a Coast Redwood grove planted in 1936 just north of the football field.

Point Cabrillo Light

The opium trading brig Frolic wrecked on a reef near Point Cabrillo in 1850; the investigation of the wreck by agents of Henry Meiggs led to the discovery of the coast redwood forests of the Mendocino area and the beginning of the timber trade that would drive the local economy for decades.

Polipoli Spring State Recreation Area

When the park was established, it was devoid of trees and was subsequently reforested in the 1930s with pines, eucalyptus, tropical ash, cypress, China-fir, and coast redwood.


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Paternal mtDNA transmission

Some Conifers also show paternal inheritance of mitochondria, such as the coast redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.