os Calan Midget Redwoods 
DISCOVERED IN CALIFORNIA 
by W.Warren Anderson 
May,1953 Price-10 Cents 
It seems incredible that ANY form of tree 
should have escaped attention in much- 
trampled California, especially a form of 
the famous Redwhods} Yet-here are FIVE 
"MINISEQUOIAS" 1/10 the »sizé~of. the 
GIANTS -- and/mady natural HYBRIDS!» ~~ 
> .> 
During the winter:of pe 53, I found over _ 
2,000 of thes¢ DWARFS, /grpwing eer ) 
'Co., Califor if, my 15 miles San 
Francisco! . rough: t to me from. 
“near Fort Bragg an :4°hd ve bee! 
ported in Del Norte Co. near egony-, | 
border, !! seal 
My first MIDGET REDWOOD was SIX 
FEET tall, loaded with seed - bearing 
_cones, had 49 ANNUAL RINGS! The giant 
Coast Redwood bears cones at 30 to 35 
years of age, when itis 50 to 75 feet tall, 
or more. : 
Resembling the Chinese Glyptostrobus in 
dense, light-green foliage, these Midgets 
also have similar white wood with light tan 
annual rings. Rarely, a tiny red core 
reaches a few inches up into the Midget 
trunk, from the RED roots. 
ABOVE Seedlings grow an UNDERGROUND ROOT - s 
W. Warren Anderson BURL, which weighs about 1/4 pound on a 
---Midget Redwoods ten-year-old Midget. Each Midget seems - 
20 to 50 years old. to live only a century, but the BURL stays Bs 
From ROOEF-BURL ALIVE, producing crop after crop of Mid- 
centuries oFfd, that get trees, perhaps for centuries. OLD 
has probably grown root - burls grow "runners", as straw- 
MANY crops of the berries do. They are underground stems 
Midget Redwoods, of white wood, identical with the Midget 
trunks. Several Midgets grow up from 
AT LEFE : each runner, making a dense clump of tiny 
Valkyrie Amdersor, trees from ONE underground BURL. Only 
age 7, with Midget the BIG, ANCIENT root-burls grow run- 
Redwood 3& in. tall, ners--young burls merely send up sprouts 
| 8 years old, which : 
' has nine seed-bear- The Midgets thrive on dry, windy ridges 
ing cones. Fie Coast of rock and adobe, or in damp alluvial val- 
Redwood bears seed leys essential to the Coast Redwoods. They 
/ at 35 yrs. ofage, 60 appear more hardy, and far more prolific 
? to 75 ft. talk from both seeds and sprouts, than the 
Coast Redwood. 
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The five varieties 
of Midget Redwood 
so far discovered-- 
in gallon cans, 
1. Spire 
2. Weeper 
3. Compacta 
4. Russet 
5. Silver-Back 
