What Are the Different Types of Redwood Trees?
There are eight different kinds of redwood trees that fall into four families, two of those families being conifers and two being broadleaf. The first family of redwood trees that we will cover is the largest family, the Family Cupressaceae. The Family Cupressaceae is populated by conifers and is made up of four distinct trees. The Sequoia sempervirens, also known as the “Coast Redwood;” the Metasequoia glyptostroboides or the “Dawn Redwood;” and the Cryptomeria japonica, which is more commonly called the “Sugi” are all redwood trees in the coniferous Family Cupressaceae. There is a fourth tree in this family. The fourth tree is the Sequoiadendron giganteum, which goes by two different names. It is called both “Giant Sequoia” and “Sierra Redwood.
