Word: metasequoia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journalist who accompanied Chaney on his trip to China wrote that the Metasequoia is a remote ancestor of California's giant redwoods...
...Hevens, the Metasequoia hasn't anything to do with redwoods; sequoia is a magic word in California for fund raising," Merrill retorted, and added, "any alliance must be with the swamp cyprus...
...trying to substantiate the redwood thesis, Chaney has written more than a dozen of the 140-odd articles published to date about the Metasequoia...
...different writers asked Merrill to "confirm" the following story: A Harvard-trained botanist in the Air Force was flying over the hump during the war when was forced to bail out over China. He landed unconscious, and when he recovered he found he was lying under a Metasequoia--"in other words his training at Harvard was so good that he knew all about the tree before botanists even knew the species," Merrill chuckled yesterday...
Fossil tremauts of the Metasequoia were only discovered in 1940 and later assigned a genus. Yet within a year a single living tree was found in China. Recent studies show that these trees once stretched all over the North temperate zone to as far North as Spitzbergen, an island above Norway...