Chamaecyparis lawsoniana
Port-Orford-cedar
Silviculture
(silvics courtesy of Silvics Manual, USFS)
Wood
Technical Fact Sheet
(courtesy of Hardwoods of North America, Forest
Products Lab, USFS)
Fire
Effects On
(courtesy of U.S. Forest Service, Fire Effects)
From
Virginia Tech w/Photos
(Big List courtesy of VT Dendrology)
Species
Documentation and Data
(The BEST conifer data on the Internet, Gymnosperm
Database, Editor C. J. Earle)
North American Timber Types
(courtesy About Forestry)
The Great American
Coniferous Forest
(courtesy About Forestry)
Recent Champion: 219' height, 39' spread, 451" circumf., Siskiyou
National Forest, Oregon
National
Register of Big Trees
Conifer Images
(courtesy of ForestryImages.org)
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Conifer Online
(Nurseries selling seedlings online)
Range Map
-The native range of Northern white-cedar, USFS.
Quick Stats
Common Names: Amerikansk
vit-ceder, Atlantic white cedar, cedar, cedre blanc d'Amerique, cedro bianco, cedro bianco
americano, cedro blanco americano, cipres blanco, cipresso bianco, coast white cedar,
juniper, kogelcypres, post cedar, retinospora, southern white cedar, swamp cedar,
swamp-cedar, swano white cedar, vit-cypress, white cedar, white chamaecyparis, white
cypress
Habitat: found most frequently in small dense stands in fresh water swamps and bogs.
Description: Heavy cutting for many commercial uses during this century has considerably reduced even the largest stands so that the total volume of this species growing stock is not currently known.
Uses: cooperage, wooden household furniture, boat building, fencing and industrial millwork.
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