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Austrosequoia was an extinct genus of redwood-like conifers in the cypress family that lived from the Cretaceous to the Oligocene in Australia and New Zealand, known only from fossil cones and leaves. It cannot be grown, so there are no care needs.
Austrosequoia was a genus of redwood that existed from the Cretaceous to Oligocene in what is now Australia and New Zealand. Fossils are known from the Winton Formation, the Little Rapid River in Tasmania and the Tupuangi Formation. While there have been doubts on its identity as a member of Sequoioideae, it does seem likely based on morphological similarity.
It is not the only evidence of Sequoioideae members in the Southern Hemisphere, as there is some evidence of a species of Sequoia (Sequoia chilensis) that once lived in the Miocene of Chile, though these specimens are questionable.
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