Pacific redcedar
western redcedar
giant arborvitae
western arborvitae
giant cedar
shinglewood
thuja plicata latin

Other names include giant redcedar, Pacific redcedar, shinglewood, British Columbia cedar, canoe cedar, and red cedar.

Thuja plicata, commonly called Western or Pacific redcedar, giant or western arborvitae, giant cedar, or shinglewood, is a species of Thuja, an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae native to western North America.

As well, the park contains many western hemlock, western redcedar and Douglas-fir.

Alaska cedar, western redcedar, and western hemlock are climax associates on some sites.

Also present are western redcedar, especially in the West, and Douglas fir, which is particularly present in the east.

These include western hemlock, western redcedar, grand fir, mountain hemlock, and larches.

A legend amongst the Coast Salish peoples describes the origins of the Western Redcedar.

The potential natural vegetation is western redcedar, grand fir, Douglas-fir, western larch, and western white pine.

The back is made of Madagascar rosewood, while the top is always made of Western Redcedar.

It was a mostly natural forest of Douglas-fir and Western Redcedar, inhabited by Native Americans, until the late 19th century.

Forested parts of the mountain include Sitka spruce, western redcedar, Douglas-fir, and western hemlock.

This will supply a good rotting seed bed for both Western Redcedar and Western Hemlock.

Douglas-fir, western redcedar and western hemlock grow at lower elevations and true firs near the ridgelines.

The dominant coniferous trees here are western hemlock, Douglas Fir, western redcedar, and sitka spruce.

In these forested sections, trees include Sitka spruce, western redcedar, Douglas-fir, and western hemlock.

It is especially common in second growth, Douglas-fir or Western Redcedar forests, making use of those pools of sunlight that intermittently reach the ground.

The most abundant trees are Douglas-fir, Western Redcedar, and Western Hemlock.

Wet sites support Coast Douglas-fir, Western Hemlock, and Western Redcedar.

There are rare stands of old-growth Douglas fir and Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata).

Phellinus weirii is a plant pathogen causing laminated root rot in certain conifers, typically Douglas-fir and western redcedar.

The riparian zone supports red alder, western redcedar, and bigleaf maple with an understory of salmonberry; California bay-laurel is common in the south.

Wetter slopes and riparian areas may support western redcedar, bigleaf maple, red alder, salmonberry, and oxalis.

The houses of the Multnomah, like the other Chinookan peoples, were largely longhouses made of Western Redcedar planks.

The combination of light weight and resistance to decay has led to Thuja plicata (Western Redcedar) being widely used for the construction of bee hives.

Western Redcedar has an extensive history of use by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast, from Oregon to southeast Alaska.

Garry oak, arbutus, Douglas-fir, western redcedar, camas, trillium, snowberry, Oregon grape, and fawn lily still remain in the park.

The park contains the city's last remaining stand of first-growth Douglas fir, as well as some magnificent Western hemlock and Western Redcedar.

It was full of giant cedars that were cut down to make room for the town.

Here at the edge of the sea these giant cedar sculptures come suddenly alive.

The 26-foot-tall carving was created using one of the giant cedars that were removed for a road project.

In the center of the lawn was a giant cedar of Lebanon.

Suddenly he recalled that one long, sweeping branch of a giant cedar tree reached inside the cave.

And just to the right of center rose the branched trunk of the giant cedar.

The lower portion of the area contain the giant cedars surrounded by Lady-fern.

The giant cedars towered above their heads, receding into the cool dimness of the forest.

We walk downhill toward the gate, the largest in Japan at 108 feet tall, blending with the surrounding giant cedar and cypress trees.

The mastiffs circled the giant cedar, baying and snarling and leaping against the massive trunk.

Tseiqami hunts whales for its dinner out at sea, and sometimes helped heroic ancestors build houses by placing giant cedar beams for them.

It sits amid wide lawns and giant cedar trees high above the eastern banks of the wide and winding River Dart.

One of the giant cedars in Avatar Grove has numerous huge burls and has been dubbed "Canada's gnarliest tree".

Florence is said to have had her calling from God whilst being sat under a giant cedar tree in the grounds of Embley Park on 7 February 1837.

The lieutenant-commander refused, and spent a miserable day lounging in a hammock between two giant cedars, drinking crushed pineapple and reading some ancient copies of popular magazines.

The Haida carved the mightiest totem polls and swiftest canoes out of giant cedar trees before the Europeans arrived in the mid-18th century on this remote archipelago.

Only a few stand back from the fever: John Ireland, the disabused socialist schoolteacher, and Beal Obenchain, who lives in the millennium-old stump of a giant cedar.

As you walk along the avenue of pines and giant cedars, you pass on the right the Anzaisho, the emperor's rest house, and Sanshujo, the rest house for the imperial family.

The park contains many mature specimens of Western red cedar, Douglas fir, and Western hemlock, some of the largest on Whidbey island, including one "Giant Cedar" over 500 years old.

Totem poles are typically carved from the trunks of Thuja plicata trees (popularly called "giant cedar" or "western red cedar"), which decay eventually in the rainforest environment of the Northwest Coast.

Mr. Hiruma had come to Yasukuni Shrine on this sweltering day to stand before its giant cedar altar, summon the Shinto deities with a clap of his hands and visit with his brother's spirit.

The giant cedars were harvested and after a dam was built in the 1800's, the area became known as Red Cedar Lake, named after the red cedars that took root after the white cedars were gone.

Here we teetered across suspension bridges a hundred feet above the forest floor, stopping at observation decks encircling giant cedars to see beyond the treetops towards families of red howler monkeys, blue-headed parrots and white-throated toucans.

Little Effect on Building The giant cedars, Douglas fir and redwoods here are particularly prized by builders for their grain and strength, but the owl decision is not expected to have a discernible effect on the overall price of housing, economists say.

Thuja plicata, commonly called Western or Pacific redcedar, giant or western arborvitae, giant cedar, or shinglewood, is a species of Thuja, an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae native to western North America.

(with his wife Jean Shinglewood Taylor) Oxford & Harvard.

Other names include giant redcedar, Pacific redcedar, shinglewood, British Columbia cedar, canoe cedar, and red cedar.

Medawar was born in London, England, the daughter of Katherine Leslie (née Paton) and Charles Henry Shinglewood Taylor, a doctor.

Thuja plicata, commonly called Western or Pacific redcedar, giant or western arborvitae, giant cedar, or shinglewood, is a species of Thuja, an evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae native to western North America.

There are rare stands of old-growth Douglas fir and Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata).

Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata) is abundant in the areas shaded by cliffs, and grassland is present in coastal areas.

Other species suspected of reaching exceptional age include European Yew Taxus baccata (probably over 2,000 years) and Western Redcedar Thuja plicata.

Coast Douglas-fir, Thuja plicata, Bigleaf Maple, Red Alder, Vine Maple, and Black Cottonwood are also found throughout the forest.

Cedars, particularly Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata, not a true cedar), have since the 1950s been used in the tops of classical guitars and to a less degree in steel string acoustic guitars.

Generally, pergolas are either made from a weather-resistant wood, such as Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata) or, formerly, of Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens), or are painted or stained.

In North America shakes are typically made from Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata), while in Scandinavia and Central Europe they are more commonly made from pine (Pinus sylvestris).

The oldest and most diverse parts of the forest are typically found on northeasterly aspect wet toe slopes, with Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata) trees over 1,000 years old and undisturbed forest stands much older than that.

The larvae feed on the foliage of various coniferous trees, including Tsuga heterophylla, Tsuga mertensiana, Pseudotsuga, Thuja plicata, Abies amabilis, Abies grandis, Abies lasiocarpa and Picea engelmannii.

Examples include the totem poles carved by North American indigenous people from conifer trunks, often Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata), and the Millennium clock tower, now housed in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.