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Sequoiadendron
Sequoiadendron is a genus of evergreen trees, with three species, only one of which survives to the present: * Sequoiadendron giganteum, extant, commonly known as wellingtonia, giant redwood and giant sequoia, growing naturally in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California * † Sequoiadendron chaneyi, the predecessor of Sequoiadendron giganteum, found mostly in the Nevada area of the Tertiary Colorado Plateau until the late Miocene * †Sequoiadendron tchucoticum Late Cretaceous; Enmyvaam River Basin, Russia
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Sequoiadendron is a genus of evergreen trees, with three species, only one of which survives to the present: * Sequoiadendron giganteum, extant, commonly known as wellingtonia, giant redwood and giant sequoia, growing naturally in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California * † Sequoiadendron chaneyi, the predecessor of Sequoiadendron giganteum, found mostly in the Nevada area of the Tertiary Colorado Plateau until the late Miocene * †Sequoiadendron tchucoticum Late Cretaceous; Enmyvaam River Basin, Russia
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