title: Some Features of the Shoot Systems in Representatives of the Tribe Sequoiae, Cultivated in Russia
abstract: The article focuses on the growth rates of three extant species belonging to the tribe Sequoiaceae: Metasequoia glyptostroboides , Sequoia sempervirens and Sequoiadendron giganteum . The material was collected from botanical garden collections on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus and Crimea. During a long growing season, all three species form shoot systems of varying complexity: from unbranched shoots consisting of a single elementary shoot to sylleptically branched multi-axial systems. In S.
journal: Timiryazev Biological Journal