The autumn leaves of "living fossils" metasequoia at Akatsuki Park are wonderful.
The reason why it is called "living fossils" is that in 1941, fossil scholar Shigeru Miki used fossils from Japan as a standard specimen and founded the Metasequoia genus as a new genus of the cedar family. It was estimated that the plant in the genus metasequoia was extinct at that time in Sichuan Province, China, in 1946, it was said that it was a metasequoia was a metasequoia.
Metasequoia is deciduous tree, which turns reddish brown before it leaves fall.
Metasequoia in Akatsuki Park is so dense that it is written as "Measequoia Forest", so it is very powerful.
I didn't notice until last year, but methasequoia fruit was produced.
It seems that the Japanese name of Metasequoia is Akebono cedar, and is it related to Akebono cedar in Akatsuki Park?
Click here for a blog post that introduced the autumn leaves of Metasequoia in the park in December 2015. ⇒
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