No other tree native or exotic can compare with its graceful beauty, sheer size and commercial productivity.
Redwood is the common name for two species, both native to California.
There is always confusion as to which redwood is which. Sequoiadendron gigantium is the giant redwood or bigtree, which grows inland, and only on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range. It is a more massive tree, but not as tall as its coastal cousins. Sequoia sempervirens is the coast redwood, which thrives only in the coastal mountain ranges of the north half of the state. A moisture loving species it is by far the tallest, but tends to be thinner than the inland redwood species.