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Northern White Cedar
Thuja occidentalis
Distinguishing Features: Small scale-like leaves, small woody cone that splits, young branches lay flat
- Type: Evergreen
- Form at maturity: 30 to 50 feet tall, conical shape
- Leaf: leaves are small and scale-like (2mm long), yellow-green to green in flattened sprays
- Flower: Monoecious, borne singly at the branch tips
- Bark: Bark is gray on the surface and reddish-brown in the furrows, furrowed into relatively narrow strips
- Fruit or Seed: 0.33 to 0.5 inch long cones with thin, overlapping scales, brown to tan color
- Other:
Thuja occidentalis leaf
Thuja occidentalis fruit
