Red Cedar
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Western red cedar is not actually a cedar but belongs to the Cupressaceae family along with cypresses. The name plicata derives from a greek word meaning “folded in plaits', referring to the patterns in its leaves.
Western red cedar, which grows to 220 feet tall and over 10 feet in diameter, was the basis of a distinctive woodworking culture on the Pacific Coast from Northern California to lower Alaska involving dugout canoes up to 40 feet long and 6 feet broad, ...
Eastern Red Cedar
Common Names: Red Cedar, grave yard tree
Genus: Juniperus
Species: virginiana ...
Eastern Red Cedar Corcorcor (Emerald Sentinel) (Juniperus virginiana)
This evergreen Juniper tree is emerald green.
Plant Types: ...
- Japanese red cedar, Sugi
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This is a large evergreen tree that makes a broad columnar plant.
Western Red Cedar wood is aromatic, light, attractive and very resistant to rot, thus is used for siding, shakes and shingles, posts, poles, doors, window sashes, boats, greenhouse benches, canoes, totem poles, and lodges. It has few if any diseases.
( Atrovirens Western red cedar )
Atrovirens has very dark green leaves and is good for hedging. In general, Thuja plicata is a large, pyramidal tree, has a buttressed base, often multiple trunks. It grows much larger in the Pacific Northwest.
Red cedar (Juniperus virginiana)
Southern red cedar (Juniperus salicicola)
Deciduous Trees ...
Western Red Cedar, Giant Western Arborvitae THEW-ya pli-KHA-ta
Conifer, evergreen tree, 50-70(200) ft, [15-21(61) m], narrow, pyramidal, buttressed base. Usually maintains lower branches.
Western red cedar (Thuja plicata) is a popular conifer, grown most commonly as hedging. Unfortunately, it can sometimes be attacked by Thuja blight, an unsightly disease of the foliage is that can cause loss of vigour, particularly on young trees.
Eastern Red Cedar
Dense, finely textured, dark green foliage. Foliage is sometimes prickly. Will not support heavy ornaments
Very strongly aromatic.
Red cedar is often used as a free-standing specimen. It is also used as a wind break tree, planted in staggered, double rows. In the southern United States, the redcedar is widely grown for fresh-cut or live-dug Christmas trees.
* 18. Eastern Red Cedar/ Juniperus virginiana
leaves
scale and needle-like.
overlapping 1-2 mm.
dark blueish-green.
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Field Office Guide to Plant Species
Eastern Red Cedar
Juniperus virginiana L.
Juniperus scopulorum Rocky Mountain Juniper Juniperus scopulorum 'Sky Rocket' Sky Rocket Juniper Juniperus scopulorum 'Witchita Blue' Wichita Blue Juniper Juniperus squamata 'Blue Star' Blue Star Juniper Juniperus virginiana Eastern Red Cedar ...
Several conifers of economic importance are abundant on the Atlantic side of North America - Juniperus virginiana (red cedar, used in the manufacture of lead pencils, and extending as far south as Florida), Taxodium distichum (swamp cypress), ...
The three specimens in Seattle's Washington Park Arboretum, as most other plants in the collection there, suffer from too much shade cast by wild native trees, in this instance western red cedar and bigleaf maple.
Eastern red cedar isn't a Cedrus at all, it's a juniper - Juniperus virginiana (which, BTW, is the "cedar" used as fragrant red cedar woodwork).
Juniperus virginiana, Eastern Red Cedar
Larix laricina, Tamarack
Liriodendron tulipifera, Yellow poplar
Maclura pomifera, Osage Orange
Pinus banksiana, Jack Pine
Pinus echinata, Shortleaf Pine
Pinus palustris, Longleaf Pine ...
Western Red Cedar Thula policata ‘Irish Gold' forms a golden yellow tree of Christmas tree shape.
Juniperus communis ‘Hibernica' forms a very narrow column of blue-grey foliage.
Cryptomeria japonica (Japanese Red Cedar)
Cunninghamia lanceolata (Chinese Fir)
Metasequoia glyptostroboides (Dawn Redwood)
Sciadopitys verticillata (Japanese Umbrella Pine)
Sequoia sempervirens (California Redwood, Coast Redwood) ...
The western native, giant arborvitae or western red cedar (Thuja plicata), is larger and faster growing than its eastern relation, but not as cold hardy, growing well in zones 5-7.
On the edge of the forest, Pacific dogwoods grow splendidly, rubbing shoulders with many conifers, such as western hemlocks ( Tsuga heterophylla), western red cedar ( Thuja plicata), spruce ( Picea sitchensis), Ponderosa pine ( Pinus ponderosa), ...
Red cedar is adaptable to a variety of wet or dry conditions. It is common in abandoned farm fields in the southern tier counties and on rocky bluffs. The wood is used chiefly for fence posts and moth-proof chests.
Description:
Eastern Red Cedar is not a true cedar, but rather a treeform juniper that occurs prolifically in cut-over timberland, in fields, and along roadways in the central regions of the Eastern United States.
Most species of Sabina are commonly called "Cedar" in the United States: "Cedar fence posts", "Cedar firewood", "Eastern Red Cedar", etc. But there are no Cedars, no members of Cedrus, in the United States.
For most of us in Canada, there are six juniper species of primary importance: Chinese (Juniperus chinensis), common (J. communis), creeping (J. horizontalis), savin (J. sabina), flaky (J. squamata) and eastern red cedar (J. virginiana).
It thrives on the open dunes, particularly in areas with an alkaline (basic) substrate. Its needle like foliage is very similar to that of our common red cedar. The cones are berry like and eaten and dispersed by birds.
Colorado Red Cedar (Juniperus scopulorum)
Colorado Spruce (Picea pungens)
Colorado Spruce (Picea pungens 'Koster')
Columbia Tiger Lily (Lilium columbianum)
Columbine (Aquilegia x 'McKana Hybrid')
Columbine (Aquilegia 'Music Box') ...
Flowers are white, in clusters at the ends of branchlets. The globular red fruit are 15 - 20 mm wide, with white pulpy flesh surrounding a stone with one or two seeds. The timber resembles that of Red Cedar but has a characteristic onion odour.
 See also: Cedar, Green, Juniper, May, Juniperus
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