Eastern Red Cedar

• Habitat range - [1]
• Used for fenceposts and fences, shingles, cabinets.
• Used as live fence, shelterbetls
• Robust for dry, heat, cold, soil conditions
• 230x spread over 40 years [2]
• Gets only to 35 feet tall [3]*
• Eastern red cedar gets to 50' tall [4]
• World champion tree is 75 feet wide [5]
• Cultivars- Cultivars include: ‘Burkii’ - pyramidal, blue

foliage, 15 to 25 feet tall; ‘Canaertii’ - compact, pyramidal, good fruit production, fairly common in Texas; ‘Hillspire’ - (cupressifolia) - good green color; ‘Elegantissima’ - Goldtip Redcedar - branchlets with yellow tips, less than 20 feet tall; ‘Filifera’ - pyramidal, branchlets divided, foliage gray green; ‘Glauca’ - Silver Redcedar - narrow, columnar, 15 to 20 feet tall, silvery blue foliage especially in spring; ‘Ketlerii’ is commonly available in the mid-west, is more open with spaces between branches at the top of the tree, pyramidal; ‘Manhattan Blue’ - compact, 20 feet tall, pyramidal, foliage bluish green; ‘Pendula’ - Weeping Redcedar - branchlets pendulous, to 40 feet tall; ‘Pyramidalis Dundee’ - pyramidal, purplish green in winter; ‘Skyrocket’ - silver-blue foliage, narrow columnar form.