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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.
22. Western Red Cedar
(Thuja plicata)
Other Common Names: Giant Arborvitae, Pacific Red Cedar, British Columbia Cedar, Canoe Cedar, Giant Cedar, Red Cedar
Family: Cupressaceae ...
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, ...
( 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.
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.
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.
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.
Of utmost importance is the Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata), but the yellow cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis), spruces (Picea glauca u.a.), hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla), pines (Pinus contorta, Pinus ponderosa), in addition Populus tremuloides, ...
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), ...
Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don - western red cedar
Thuja occidentalis L. arborvitae
Thuja occidentalis L. - arborvitae ...
Eastern white cedar and Western red cedar aren't Cedrus either, they're arborvitae - Thuja occidentalis and Thuja plicata, respectively. Incense cedar, Calocedrus decurrens, is close, but no cigar. Japanese cedar is Cryptomeria japonica.
plicata of W North America, called giant arborvitae, red cedar, or Western red cedar, is much larger and considerably more important as lumber; it is primarily used for making shingles and shakes.
Microbiota decussata (Siberian Carpet Cypress)
Platycladus orientalis (Oriental arborvitae)
Thuja occidentalis (American Arborvitae, Northern White-Cedar)
Thuja plicata (Western Red Cedar)
Thujopsis dolabrata (Hiba Cedar, Deerhorn Cedar) ...
 See also: Red Cedar, Cedar, Thuja plicata, Thuja, Green
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