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Thuja plicata is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the family Cupressaceae, native to the Pacific Northwest of North America. Its common name is western redcedar in the U.S. [2] or western red cedar in the UK, [3] and it is also called pacific red cedar, giant arborvitae, western arborvitae, just cedar, giant cedar, or shinglewood. [4]
The Duncan Cedar, also known as the Duncan Memorial Cedar and the Nolan Creek Tree, is a large specimen of Western redcedar. The tree is located on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington. [1] It is currently the largest known Western redcedar in the world, [2] (compare to the Cheewhat Giant on Canada's Vancouver Island. [3] After ...
T. plicata is an important tree to the First Nations people of the Pacific Northwest and is sometimes called "Canoe Tree" because of its use as a material for Native American canoes. [citation needed] Oil of Thuja contains the terpene thujone which has been studied for its GABA receptor antagonizing effects, with potentially lethal properties. [26]
The Western red cedar, dubbed “Luma,” is about 80 feet (24.4 meters) tall, with two trunks that are each about 4 Seattle climate activists roost in old cedar tree to prevent it from being cut ...
Cedrus, common English name cedar, a genus of coniferous trees in the plant family Pinaceae Cedrus libani, the Lebanon cedar, native to Lebanon, western Syria and south-central Turkey; Cedrus atlantica, the Atlas cedar, native to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and Algeria; Cedrus deodara, the Deodar cedar, native to the western Himalayas
Peter Beedlow, scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, holds the tip of a young Western Red Cedar tree in the Willamette National Forest on Oct. 27. Scientists are investigating what ...
Cheewhat Giant, also known as the Cheewhat Lake Cedar, is a large western red cedar (Thuja plicata) tree located within Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest living Western redcedar, the largest known tree in Canada and one of the largest in the world. [3]
The major tree species here are Douglas fir, western red cedar, Sitka spruce, and western hemlock. Beyond the northern end of Vancouver Island, is the "perhumid rain forest zone". Douglas fir wanes as a dominant species, and the forest is primarily made up of western red cedar, Sitka spruce, and western hemlock.