Roadside trees add special beauty to each street of the capital city of Pyongyang.
Among them, dawn redwoods with good looks and high economic value are drawing the attention of pedestrians.
They provide cool shade in midsummer along walkways on some streets of Central and Taesong districts including Ryomyong Street in which residential quarters of scientists and lecturers nestle.
“When I walk under towering dawn redwoods on my way to work and back home, it seems to clear my mind and remove fatigue,” said Kim Chun Sil, a resident of Ryomyong-dong of Taesong District.
The street looks brighter as commuters go to work in great vigour under the trees, she added.
The tree grows 35 metres high and 2 metres in diameter in humid soil.
According to experts, it annually grows 1 to 1.5m and is of high utility value as its trunk is thick and smooth along with thin branches.
It is hardly damaged by pine caterpillars and grows straight while taking deep roots. Its crown is conical and leaves are soft and turn yellow in autumn, serving as a good garden plant.
Propagation by seed makes the tree big in twelve years, whereas cutting enables it to become tall in only ten years.
It had been regarded as a fossil plant whose progenitor had been terminated before being discovered after a long lapse of time and has been bred on a large scale in the DPRK since the early 1960s.
“During the Fatherland Liberation War, a foreign country presented a dawn redwood to President Kim Il Sung as a gift and the tree was acclimatized. Now the trees are growing in all parts of the country and regarded as a good roadside tree species adding beauty to the scenery,” said Jon Kwang Il, official of the Central Botanical Garden.
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