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Thuja occidentalis

white cedar

Other common names
American arbor-vitae
eastern white cedar
see morenorthern white cedar
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Botanical details
Family
Cupressaceae
Native to GB / Ireland
No
Genus

Thuja

Genus description

Thuja are fast-growing evergreen trees of narrowly conical habit, with flat sprays of tiny, aromatic, scale-like leaves and small knobbly cones

Name status

Correct

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