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How Metasequoia, the “Living Fossil,” Was Discovered in China
Plant Exploration
Metasequoia glyptostroboides: Fifty Years of Growth in North America
Horticulture
The Tree as Celebrity
History
How to Fund Botanical Expeditions
Plant Exploration
Metasequoia and the Living Fossils
History
Notes on Chinese-American Botanical Collaboration
Plant Exploration
The California Academy-Lingnan Dawn-Redwood Expedition
Plant Exploration
An Ecological Reconnaissance in the Native Home of Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Ecology
Metasequoia glyptostroboides—Its Status in Central China in 1980
Plant Exploration
Metasequoia: An Overview of Its Phylogeny, Reproductive Biology, and Ecotypic Variation
Research
From Fossils to Molecules: The Metasequoia Tale Continues
Research
Metasequoia Travels the Globe
Horticulture
A Guide to Metasequoia at the Arnold Arboretum
Horticulture
Chinese Names in Transliteration: A Conversion Table
History
An Evolutionary Perspective on Strengths, Fallacies, and Confusions in the Concept of Native Plants
Evolution
‘Lilac Sunday’-The Cultivar
Plant Profiles
Requiem for a Cork Tree
Plant Profiles
Cephalotaxus: The Plum Yews
Taxonomy
Plant Collecting on Wudang Shan
Plant Exploration
Urban Soil: Problems and Promise
Landscape

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