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25-755: To build the Weber Point Home, Weber purchased redwood lumber from Woodside near the Santa Cruz Mountains . Two lumber mills operated near the Santa Cruz Mountains from the mills redwood brought by oxen pulled cart to Redwood City , then at San Francisco Bay taken up the San Joaquin River and the Stockton Channel to Weber Point by barge . The Great Flood of 1862 damaged the house and it

50-490: A difficult matter—especially since it in part depends on an incomplete fossil record. Sequoioideae is an ancient taxon , with the oldest described Sequoioideae species, Sequoia jeholensis , recovered from Jurassic deposits. The fossil wood Medulloprotaxodioxylon , reported from the late Triassic of China, resembles Sequoiadendron giganteum and may represent an ancestral form of the Sequoioideae; this supports

75-530: A public school in the central New South Wales city of Dubbo . Burls yield a very peculiar and highly figured wood, prized for its beauty and rarity. It is sought after by furniture makers, artists, and wood sculptors. There are a number of well-known types of burls (each from a particular species); these are highly valued and sliced into veneers for furniture, inlay in doors, picture frames, household objects, automobile interior paneling and trim, musical instruments, and woodturning . The prized " burr maple "

100-615: Is a subfamily of coniferous trees within the family Cupressaceae , that range in the northern hemisphere . It includes the largest and tallest trees in the world. The trees in the subfamily are amongst the most notable trees in the world and are common ornamental trees. The subfamily reached its peak diversity in the early cenozoic . The three redwood subfamily genera are Sequoia from coastal California and Oregon , Sequoiadendron from California's Sierra Nevada , and Metasequoia in China . The redwood species contains

125-575: Is not a species of a maple, but wood from a maple's burl (burr). The famous birdseye maple of the sugar maple ( Acer saccharum ) superficially resembles burr maple, but it is something else entirely. Burl wood is very hard to work with hand tools or on a lathe , because its grain is twisted and interlocked, causing it to chip and shatter unpredictably. This "wild grain" makes burl wood extremely dense and resistant to splitting, which made it valued for bowls, mallets, mauls and "beetles" or "beadles" for hammering chisels and driving wooden pegs. Because of

150-583: Is on the east end of the Stockton Channel at 221 N. Center Street. Weber Point Event Center is managed by the City of Stockton Community Services Department. Weber Point Event Center also has: the Great Circle, step Amphitheater, children's play area, an interactive water feature, Point Amphitheater, and waterfront promenade. Redwood Sequoioideae , commonly referred to as redwoods ,

175-469: Is typically a result of some form of stress such as an injury or a viral or fungal infection. Burls yield a very peculiar and highly figured wood sought after in woodworking, and some items may reach high prices on the wood market. Poaching of burl specimens and damaging the trees in the process poses a problem in some areas. A burl results from a tree undergoing some form of stress . It may be caused by an injury, virus or fungus. Most burls grow beneath

200-687: The California Gold Rush . The historical marker was built by California State Department of Parks and Recreation in cooperation with the Stockton City Council and Cultural Heritage Board placed on July 10, 1976, at the Weber Point Events Center. The historical marker is about 450 feet east of where the house was. Weber's only daughter, Julia Weber, built a house, the Weber Cottage, next to

225-476: The Jurassic . Reticulate evolution refers to the origination of a taxon through the merging of ancestor lineages. Polyploidy has come to be understood as quite common in plants—with estimates ranging from 47% to 100% of flowering plants and extant ferns having derived from ancient polyploidy. Within the gymnosperms however it is quite rare. Sequoia sempervirens is hexaploid (2n= 6x= 66). To investigate

250-556: The 1881 home. The home was Julia new home. Julia moved the 1881 home and the 1892 Weber Cottage in 1900 to West Lane, just north of the Calaveras River , calling it Helen’s Oaks after her mother. The site is today called Helen's Oaks Circle road. The Weber Point Event Center is an 9.7-acre (39,000 m) open plaza and stage that is rented for city events and annual events, like: festivals , concerts , movie nights, and other of community events. Weber Point Event Center

275-859: The Late Cretaceous-Oligocene of the Southern Hemisphere, including Australia and New Zealand, has been suggested as a member of the subfamily. In 2024, it was estimated that there were about 500,000 redwoods in Britain, mostly brought as seeds and seedlings from the US in the Victorian era . The entire subfamily is endangered . The IUCN Red List Category & Criteria assesses Sequoia sempervirens as Endangered (A2acd), Sequoiadendron giganteum as Endangered (B2ab) and Metasequoia glyptostroboides as Endangered (B1ab). In 2024 it

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300-606: The Weber Point Home in 1892. Her house had a connecting corridor to the Weber Point Home. The Weber Cottage was moved to San Joaquin County Historical Museum at Micke Grove Park on November 9, 1984. The Weber Cottage is the oldest wooden building in San Joaquin County. Weber's sons, Charles Weber II, Thomas, and Julia built a new two-story Victorian home on Weber Point in 1881. Some of the glass, doors and windows from 1850 adobe home were used to build

325-467: The assertion that the Sequoioideae are monophyletic . Most modern phylogenies place Sequoia as sister to Sequoiadendron and Metasequoia as the out-group. However, Yang et al. went on to investigate the origin of a peculiar genetic component in Sequoioideae, the polyploidy of Sequoia —and generated a notable exception that calls into question the specifics of this relative consensus. A 2006 paper based on non-molecular evidence suggested

350-511: The entire trunk; when moisture is present, these burls can grow new redwood trees. The world's second-largest burls can be found in Port McNeill, British Columbia . One of the largest burls known was found around 1984 in the small town of Tamworth, New South Wales . It stands 6.4 ft (2.0 m) tall, with an odd shape resembling a trombone. In January 2009, this burl was controversially removed from its original location, and relocated to

375-585: The following relationship among extant species: M. glyptostroboides (dawn redwood) S. sempervirens (coast redwood) S. giganteum (giant sequoia) Taxodioideae A 2021 study using molecular evidence found the same relationships among Sequoioideae species, but found Sequoioideae to be the sister group to the Athrotaxidoideae (a superfamily presently known only from Tasmania ) rather than to Taxodioideae . Sequoioideae and Athrotaxidoideae are thought to have diverged from each other during

400-566: The ground, attached to the roots as a type of malignancy that is generally not discovered until the tree dies or falls over. Such burls sometimes appear as groups of bulbous protrusions connected by a system of rope-like roots. Almost all burl wood is covered by bark , even if it is underground. Insect infestation and certain types of mold infestation are the most common causes of this condition. In some tree species, burls can grow to great size. The largest, at 26 ft (8 m), occur in coast redwoods ( Sequoia sempervirens ) and can engirdle

425-608: The idea of a Late Triassic Norian origin for this subfamily. The fossil record shows a massive expansion of range in the Cretaceous and dominance of the Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora , especially in northern latitudes. Genera of Sequoioideae were found in the Arctic Circle , Europe, North America, and throughout Asia and Japan. A general cooling trend beginning in the late Eocene and Oligocene reduced

450-428: The inconsistent relationships among Metasequoia , Sequoia, and Sequoiadendron could be a sign of reticulate evolution by hybrid speciation (in which two species hybridize and give rise to a third) among the three genera. However, the long evolutionary history of the three genera (the earliest fossil remains being from the Jurassic ) make resolving the specifics of when and how Sequoia originated once and for all

475-577: The largest and tallest trees in the world. These trees can live for thousands of years. Threats include logging, fire suppression, illegal marijuana cultivation, and burl poaching. Only two of the genera, Sequoia and Sequoiadendron , are known for massive trees. Trees of Metasequoia , from the single living species Metasequoia glyptostroboides , are deciduous, grow much smaller (although are still large compared to most other trees) and can live in colder climates. Multiple studies of both morphological and molecular characters have strongly supported

500-413: The northern ranges of the Sequoioideae, as did subsequent ice ages. Evolutionary adaptations to ancient environments persist in all three species despite changing climate, distribution, and associated flora, especially the specific demands of their reproduction ecology that ultimately forced each of the species into refugial ranges where they could survive. The extinct genus Austrosequoia , known from

525-467: The origins of this polyploidy Yang et al. used two single copy nuclear genes , LFY and NLY, to generate phylogenetic trees . Other researchers have had success with these genes in similar studies on different taxa. Several hypotheses have been proposed to explain the origin of Sequoia's polyploidy: allopolyploidy by hybridization between Metasequoia and some probably extinct taxodiaceous plant; Metasequoia and Sequoiadendron, or ancestors of

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550-588: The two genera, as the parental species of Sequoia ; and autohexaploidy , autoallohexaploidy, or segmental allohexaploidy. Yang et al. found that Sequoia was clustered with Metasequoia in the tree generated using the LFY gene but with Sequoiadendron in the tree generated with the NLY gene. Further analysis strongly supported the hypothesis that Sequoia was the result of a hybridization event involving Metasequoia and Sequoiadendron . Thus, Yang et al. hypothesize that

575-488: The value of burls, ancient redwoods in national parks in the Western United States have recently been poached by thieves for their burls, including at Redwood National and State Parks . Poachers often cut off the burls from the sides of the trunks using chainsaws, which exposes the tree to infection and disease, or fell the entire tree to steal burls higher up. Because of the risk of poaching, Jeff Denny,

600-727: Was repaired. The Great Flood of 1881 also damaged the house and it was again repaired. Weber came to in California in 1841 with the Bartleson–Bidwell Party , the first American to emigrants in covered wagon from Missouri to California. Weber joined William Gulnac, a Mexican citizen in 1842, and opened a business in San Jose. Weber became a Mexican citizen in 1845. Weber was able to acquired Gulnac's interest in El Rancho del Campo de los Franceses. Weber also profited from

625-455: Was reported that over a period of two years about one-fifth of all giant sequoias were destroyed in extreme wildfires in California. New World Species : Burl A burl (American English) or burr (British English) is a tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner. It is commonly found in the form of a rounded outgrowth on a tree trunk or branch that is filled with small knots from dormant buds. Burl formation

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