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|familia=Cupressaceae

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|genus=Thuja  

|genus=Thuja

|species=plicata

|species=plicata

|common_name=Giant arbor, Western red cedar

|common_name=Giant arbor, Western red cedar

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'''Western Red Cedar''' ('''''Thuja plicata''''') is a species of ''[[Thuja]]'', an [[evergreen]] [[Pinophyta|coniferous]] [[tree]] in the cypress family [[Cupressaceae]]. In the American [[Horticulture|horticultural]] trade, it is also known as the '''Giant Arborvitae''', ''Arborvitae'' being another name for its [[genus]].

| name = ''Thuja plicata''

 

| common_names = Western Redcedar

The Western Red Cedar is not actually a cedar ''([[Cedrus]])'', but belongs in the Cupressaceae family, along with [[cypress]]es.  It is known by many names: Pacific red cedar, British Columbia cedar, canoe cedar, giant cedar, and red cedar.<ref name="stewart 22">Stewart (1984), p. 22</ref>

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The Western Red Cedar is a large tree, ranging between 40 to 150 feet (12 to 45 meters) tall and up to 22 feet (7 meters) in trunk diameter. Trees growing in the open will exhibit a crown that reaches the ground, whereas trees densely spaced together will only exhibit a crown at the top, where light can reach the leaves.<ref name="stewart 24"/>  Some individuals can live nearly a thousand years, if not more.

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The foliage forms flat sprays with scale-like leaves in opposite pairs, with successive pairs at 90° to each other. The foliage sprays are green above, and green marked white with [[stomata]]l bands below. The [[conifer cone|cones]] are slender, 15–20&nbsp;mm long and 4–5&nbsp;mm broad, with 8-12 thin, overlapping scales. 

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| image_caption = ''Thuja plicata'' shoot with mature cones

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''[[Thuja]] plicata'', Don (T. gigantea, Nutt. T. Menziesii, Douglas. T. Lobbii, Hort.). Tall tree, attaining 200 ft., with short horizontal branches often pendulous at the ends, forming a narrow pyramid: trunk with a much-buttressed base and clothed with cinnamon-red bark: branchlets slender, regularly and closely set: lvs. bright green and glossy above, dark green beneath and with whitish triangular spots: lvs. of vigorous shoots widely spaced, ending in long points parallel to axis, of the lateral branchlets acute and scarcely glandular: cones cylindric-ovoid, little over 1/2 in. long; scales 8-10, elliptic-oblong, usually the 3 middle pairs fertile; seeds winged, notched at the apex. Alaska to N. Calif. and Mont. Var. atrovirens, Sudw. (T. gigantea atrovirens, Beissn.). Foliage dark green. Var. fastigiata, Schneid. (T. gigantea fastigiata, Beissn. T. gigantea pyramidalis, Bean). Columnar form. Var. gracilis, Rehd. (T. gigantea var. gracilis, Beissn.). Smaller tree, with more slender branches and smaller foliage of paler green. Var. pendula, Schneid. (T. gigantea pendula, Beissn.). Form with slender pendulous branches.

''[[Thuja]] plicata'', Don (T. gigantea, Nutt. T. Menziesii, Douglas. T. Lobbii, Hort.). Tall tree, attaining 200 ft., with short horizontal branches often pendulous at the ends, forming a narrow pyramid: trunk with a much-buttressed base and clothed with cinnamon-red bark: branchlets slender, regularly and closely set: lvs. bright green and glossy above, dark green beneath and with whitish triangular spots: lvs. of vigorous shoots widely spaced, ending in long points parallel to axis, of the lateral branchlets acute and scarcely glandular: cones cylindric-ovoid, little over 1/2 in. long; scales 8-10, elliptic-oblong, usually the 3 middle pairs fertile; seeds winged, notched at the apex. Alaska to N. Calif. and Mont. Var. atrovirens, Sudw. (T. gigantea atrovirens, Beissn.). Foliage dark green. Var. fastigiata, Schneid. (T. gigantea fastigiata, Beissn. T. gigantea pyramidalis, Bean). Columnar form. Var. gracilis, Rehd. (T. gigantea var. gracilis, Beissn.). Smaller tree, with more slender branches and smaller foliage of paler green. Var. pendula, Schneid. (T. gigantea pendula, Beissn.). Form with slender pendulous branches.

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Image:QuinaultLakeCedar 7274c.jpg|''Quinault Lake Redcedar'', largest in the world

Image:QuinaultLakeCedar 7274c.jpg|''Quinault Lake Redcedar'', largest in the world

Image:Starr_041221_1920_thuja_plicata.jpg|''T. plicata''

Image:Starr_041221_1920_thuja_plicata.jpg|''T. plicata''

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