Eastern Red Cedar
From Open Source Ecology
- 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, bluefoliage, 15 to 25 feet tall; ‘Canaertii’ - compact,pyramidal, good fruit production, fairly common inTexas; ‘Hillspire’ - (cupressifolia) - good green color [6] ;‘Elegantissima’ - Goldtip Redcedar - branchlets withyellow tips, less than 20 feet tall; ‘Filifera’ -pyramidal, branchlets divided, foliage gray green;‘Glauca’ - Silver Redcedar - narrow, columnar, 15 to20 feet tall, silvery blue foliage especially in spring;‘Ketlerii’ is commonly available in the mid-west, ismore open with spaces between branches at the top ofthe tree, pyramidal; ‘Manhattan Blue’ - compact, 20feet tall, pyramidal, foliage bluish green; ‘Pendula’ -Weeping Redcedar - branchlets pendulous, to 40 feet tall [7]. Nice form - [8]; ‘Pyramidalis Dundee’ - pyramidal, purplish greenin winter; ‘Skyrocket’ - silver-blue foliage, narrow columnar form. 'Reptans' - [9]
