In China ist das Areal in voneinader isolierte Teilpolpulationen gespalten, von denen nicht bekannt ist wie lange sie schon isoliert sind. Jedoch haben genetische Analysen gezeigt daß die allererste Generation (Cheng 1947) nur von wenigen Bäumen gesammelt wurde und wahrscheinlich an einer einzigen Stelle. Vielleicht sogar nur ein einziger Baum.
In den 1990er Jahren leitete John Kuser ein Projekt in dem von verschiedenen Orten / Bäumen Samen gesammelt wurden. Daraus entstandene Sämlinge sollten die neue genetische Basis für weltweite Anpflanzungen werden.
Dennoch ist es gut möglich daß auch heute noch Stecklinge von Bäumen der ersten Generation gemacht werden, bzw. Samen vertrieben. (Ich weiß nicht ob es ein Zertifikat gibt.)
"The earliest seed sent out of China, sent Out from China, 1947 to 1950, was from W. C. Cheng (1904–1983) of The Arboretum, National Central University, Ting Chia Chiao, Nanking (Nanjing), China. From 1947 to 1950, the following institutions and organization received seeds directly from China: (...)"
"After the People’s Republic of China was founded in 1949, the introduction of seeds from China to the West was limited. Seeds were sent mainly to the socialist countries in the former USSR and eastern Europe, and to North Korea, including the following: (...)"
"After the Chinese government opened its doors in 1979, westerners were able to visit the native area of Metasequoia for botanical investigation and expeditions (Bartholomew et al. 1983; Chen and Ringrose 2000), making possible the introduction of Metasequoia seeds to the West ever since. The largest introduction, in the 1990s, was by John E. Kuser of Rutgers University, New Jer sey, USA, in cooperation with Li Minghe of Cen tral China Agricultural University, Wuhan, Hubei (Kuser et al. 1997; Hendricks and Søndergaard 1998; Kuser 1998). With financial support from the United States, the Chinese scientists collected seeds from more than 52 different individual trees of Metasequoia in its native area. These have been germinated and cultivated for further study in the Metasequoia Plantation at Rutgers University in New Jersey, at the Dawes Arboretum in Ohio, and elsewhere (Hendricks and Søndergaard 1998; Kuser 1998). The introduced plants have been growing well over the past two decades, and have produced the largest genetic conservatory of living Metasequoia out side of China (Hendricks 1994)."
Quelle:
[] Metasequoia: Back from the Brink? - An Update
Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Metasequoia and Associated Plants
August 6–10, 2006
Edited by Hong Yang and Leo J. Hickey
Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University Volume 48, Issue 2 • 31 October 2007
ISSN 0079-032X
Darin:
[] Jinshuang Ma (2006): A Worldwide Survey of Cultivated Metasequoia glyptostroboides Hu & Cheng (Taxodiaceae: Cupressaceae) from 1947 to 2007