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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]
Eastern red cedar, Juniperus virginiana, a species of juniper native to eastern North America; Eastern white cedar, also northern white cedar, Thuja occidentalis, native to eastern North America. Calocedrus, the incense cedars, a genus native to western North America, Eastern Asia; Japanese cedar, Cryptomeria japonica; known as 杉 (Sugi) in ...
Thuja poles are also often used to make fence posts and rails. The wood of Thuja plicata is commonly used for guitar sound boards . [ 24 ] Its combination of light weight and resistance to decay has also led to T. plicata being widely used for the construction of bee hives.
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]
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It is commonly known as the red cedar (a name shared by other trees), tone, toon or toona (also applied to other members of the genus Toona), Australian red cedar, [5] Burma cedar, Indian cedar, Moulmein cedar or the Queensland red cedar. It is also known as Indian mahogany. [6] Indigenous Australian names include Polai in the Illawarra.
Unlike the closely related western red cedar (Thuja plicata), northern white cedar is only a small or medium-sized tree, growing to a height of 15 m (49 ft) tall with a 0.9 m (3.0 ft) trunk diameter, exceptionally to 38 metres (125 ft) tall and 1.8 metres (5.9 ft) diameter. [7] The tree is often stunted or prostrate in less favorable locations.