I'm so sad this blew down in the high winds, but one of my neighbor's redwood trees had an albino branch!

Even the wood was lighter. So pretty.

Things I have learned:

There's apparently 5 or so different types of albinism that can occur in redwoods. If it's the *entire* plant, it's a bright white color. These can only survive if they are the offshoots of a mature tree. A truly albino plant cannot survive on its own. But redwoods are also known to have patches of albino foliage, like this branch here, and when it originates above the root stock it's yellow instead of white.

A lot of people were unaware that plants can exhibit forms of albinism, which makes sense. As I stated before, if they are not attached to a 'normal' plant, they cannot survive and so they're very *very* rare.

Lots of people think this is really cool, and it is! I've not seen an albino branch before, it makes me giddy.

If I do manage to propagate this branch, there's not guarantee that it will make more albino foliage aside from this one branch. I don't know if I'd be able to basically create a 'double' tree from it if I removed the top section if it became established, but that is the only way I could see it becoming anything other than just a single white branch on an otherwise normal tree. But I also don't know if redwoods are able to make side branches into new main trunks the way Carl The Apricot did.

@elodieunderglass i didn’t know this was a thing that could happen to trees!