Thuja – Platycladus – Arborvitae – Red\u00a0\u00a0 Cedar\u00a0 – White Cedar –<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are 5 or 6 narrowly to broadly conical, sometimes columnar to pyramidal, monoecious, evergreen coniferous small trees or large shrubs\u00a0\u00a0 in the Cupressaceae family, in this genus.\u00a0 They naturally occur in high rainfall, cool temperate regions, or damp coastal and lowland plains in forest in Northeastern Asia where 3 species originate and North America where 2 species originate.\u00a0 They produce scale-like, narrowly wedge to diamond shaped leaves, borne in 2 ranks of opposite pairs, are usually aromatic when bruised, and may turn brown in winter..\u00a0 They feature erect, straight trunks covered in reddish brown, deeply fissured, fibrous bark.\u00a0 The small, erect, variably shaped female cones have 6-12 overlapping scale, male cones are small and ovoid, and \u00bd” long are initially green maturing to brown.\u00a0 Grow as specimen trees or shrubs, must are suitable for hedging, some can grow 3-5′ feet a year.\u00a0 The dwarf cultivars some no more then 15″ high, may be grown in a rock garden.\u00a0 Contact with foliage may aggravate skin allergies.<\/p>\n

Grow in any deep, moist but well drained soil in full sun.\u00a0 Trim hedges in spring and late summer..\u00a0 Most dislike dry conditions.<\/p>\n

Prone to caterpillars<\/em> (including bagworm)<\/em>, bark beetle, weevils, mites, scale insects, butt rot, twig dieback, gray mold (Botrytis), mushroom root rot,, needle blight, <\/em>and the larvae of some Lepidoptera.<\/em><\/p>\n

T. occidentalis \u2018Filiformis\u2019 – American arborvitae – Eastern Arborvitae <\/strong>– These slow growing, mounding shrub from North America grow 25′ tall. It has peeling reddish brown bark. It produces scale like, ovate, yellowish green leaves, grayish green beneath, each with a prominent, raised dorsal gland, are slightly apple scented and turn brown in winter.\u00a0 Ovoid female yellow green cones which ripen to brown are \u00bd” long, each have 8-10 pairs of smooth scales.<\/p>\n

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