Giant Sequoia in the Flora Botanical Garden

This giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) is 150 years old. It always keeps its needles, just like the coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) on the other side of the Flora pond. In contrast, the dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) at the Alpinum pond is a different species and sheds its needles in winter
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Explored by myself, written by myself.

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The giant sequoia is botanically called Sequoiodendron giganteum.A sign lists its previous names:
Wellingtonia gigantea Lindl 1853
Americus gigantea Anon. 1854
Sequoia gigantea Decne. 1854
Taxodium Washingtonianum Winsl. 1
Washingtonia Californica Winsl. 1855
Sequoia Wellingtonia Seem. 1855
Taxodium giganteum Kellog et Behr 1855
Washingtonia Americana Hort. A ex Gord. 1862
Americus giganteus Anon. 1858
Gigantabies Wellingtonia J.Nels. 1886
Sequoia washingtoniana Sudw. 1897
Steinhauera gigantea Kuntze 1908