50 Eastern Red Cedar Seeds
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Eastern Red Cedar is an evergreen conifer that grows 40 to 80 feet in height with a trunk up to feet in diameter. This aromatic tree often has a symmetrical, pyramidal shape and has thin, fibrous, reddish-brown bark. The trunk is noticeably tapered, often becoming fluted at the base.
Fragrant, scale-like foliage can be coarse or fine-cut, and varies in color from gray-green to blue-green to light- or dark-green. All colors tend to brown in winter.Â
- Zone:Â 2 to 9
- Growth Rate:Â Moderate to Rapid
- Plant Type:Â Needled evergreen conifer
- Family:Â Cupressaceae (Cypress Family)
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Native Range:Â east and central North America
Height:Â 40 to 80Â feet
Spread:Â 8 to 15Â feet
Shape:Â Upright; densely pyramidal; becomes irregular and slightly pendulous with age. - Height:Â 40 to 80Â feet
- Spread:Â 8 to 15Â feet
- Shape:Â Upright; densely pyramidal; becomes irregular and slightly pendulous with age.
- Bloom Time:Â Late Winter
- Sun:Â Full Sun
- Fall Color:Â Evergreen
- Drought Tolerance:Â High
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Water:Â Low
- Maintenance:Â Low
- Site Requirements/Â Soil Tolerances: Tolerant of most conditions.
- Culture:Â Pruning depends upon desired form. Easy to transplant.
- Uses:Â Landscape specimen, garden accent, screen, Bonsai, mass plantings, groupings, windbreaks, foundation plantings, wood used for cedar products, fence posts, difficult sites.
- Leaf:Â Evergreen, very small, with two types of leaves (often on the same tree), scale-like leaves 1/16 inch long, dark green, with 4 sides held tightly to twig and longer (1/4 inch), dark blue-green needle-like leaves that are more common on young trees and fast growing shoots.
- Flower:Â Dioecious; but occasionally monoecious; males are small, yellow-brown, occurring in large groups; females are light blue-green.
- Berry-like cones, light green in spring, turning dark blue and glaucous at maturity, about 1/4 inch in diameter, appearing in spring and maturing in the fall.
- Twig:Â Green for several years, covered in scales, later turning brown.
- Bark:Â Red-brown in color, exfoliating in long, fibrous strips, often ashy gray where exposed.
- Form:Â A small tree with a dense ovoid or columnar crown reaching up to 80 feet tall.
Quantity: 30 Seeds