The Arboretum Habichtsborn, also known as the Arboretum Staufenberg, is an

arboretum An arboretum (: arboreta) is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees and shrubs of a variety of species. Originally mostly created as a section in a larger garden or park for specimens of mostly non-local species, many modern arbor ...

located at Forstamtsstraße 6, Escherode, several kilometers southeast of Staufenberg,

Lower Saxony Lower Saxony is a States of Germany, German state (') in Northern Germany, northwestern Germany. It is the second-largest state by land area, with , and fourth-largest in population (8 million in 2021) among the 16 ' of the Germany, Federal Re ...

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. It is maintained by the ''Niedersächsischen Forstlichen Versuchsanstalt'', and contains about 150 types of woody plants, including ''

Sequoiadendron ''Sequoiadendron'' is a genus of evergreen trees, with three species, only one of which survives to the present: * ''Sequoiadendron giganteum'', extant species, extant, commonly known as wellingtonia, giant redwood and giant sequoia, growing nat ...

'' specimens.

References

BGCI entry

ZEFOD entry

Galerie Göttinger Land entry

Mammutbaum blog, with many photographs

Staufenberg pamphlet

Wolfgang Knigge, ''Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum (Lindl.) Buchholz) in Europe''
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