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Juniperus virginiana |
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Eastern Red Cedar |
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Upright, pyramidal to almost columnar, becoming
slightly pendulous with age. |
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40-50 feet tall with a spread of 8-20 feet |
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Plants are
dioecious. Male cones are yellow,
females greenish, not showy. |
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Leaves are mostly scale-like, closely pressed
and overlapping, 4 ranked, 1/16 inch across,
often with a small oval, glandular depression on
the back. Juvenile, awl-like leaves often
present, borne in pairs, ¼ inch long, sharp
pointed, bluish and concave above, green and
convex below. |
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Bark is reddish-brown, exfoliating in long
strips. |
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Cones are rounded, brownish-violet, ⅕ inch
across, with a bluish bloom. |
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'Elegantissima' - Goldtip Red
Cedar - has branchlets tipped with golden yellow. It
is a pyramidal tree, usually not over 20 feet
tall at maturity and turns a good bronze color
in the fall
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'Filifera' - broadly pyramidal
tree with very slender, much-divided branchlets
and gray-green foliage
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var glauca - Silver
Red Cedar - narrow columnar tree about 15-20
feet tall and has silvery-blue colored foliage
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'Globosa' - an excellent rounded and densely
branched specimen
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'Peudula' - Weeping Red Cedar
- spreading
branches and pendulous branchlets.
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'Skyrocket' - upright, narrow
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'Tripartita' - Fountain Red Cedar
- dwarf and spreading,
with several branches coming from the ground
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Hardiest and most
popular of the tree junipers |
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