Bark of a 35 cm dbh tree at Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge, SC [C.J. Common names. Eastern Red-Cedar also make a great wild “utility” hedge/screen. I’ve dug them at 1-2 feet tall with relative ease with a (balling) drain spade from a field and replanted them along a highway, in a zig-zag pattern. Eastern Redcedar is an evergreen tree that may grow 30 to 40 feet tall. Trunk/Bark. The branchlets are flattened, dark green on the upper side and light-green or brownish on the base but without whitish markings. Juniperus virginiana. Just for fun: this car made out of J. virginiana was sold on eBay on 2010.08.16. Learn More. Learn More. The red cedar cants are mostly bark-free and rot-free. Red Cedar Lumber. I repurposed them when sprouting in the wild. Red Cedar Logs. Two varieties, virginiana and silicicola. Earle]. Cedar bark textile was used by indigenous people in the Pacific Northwest region of modern-day Canada and the United States.Historically, most items of clothing were made of shredded and woven cedar bark. Cedar cants are cut 3″ to 6″ longer than ordered so it can be cut off the end. It has two types of leaves: spreading prickly ones on young shoots and seedlings, and tightly overlapping scale-like leaves on the mature branches. Birds, including the cedar waxwing, eat the waxy blue berry-like cones. We buy and sell red cedar logs for saw-milling and export. The red cedar cants are mostly bark free and no rot, and are cut 3″ to 6″ longer than ordered so it can be cut off the end. Eastern red cedar lumber is used for a lot of things. Cedar cants are 1/8 to 1/4 larger in thickness for planing. Branches/Twigs. Most cants are 5’1″, 6’3″, 7′ 2″ and 8′ 6″ long and are air dried to about 10%. Eastern redcedar, red or eastern juniper; genévrier rouge [French]; miskwaawaak [Ojibwe]. Eastern red cedars (Juniperus vinginiana) are also known as juniper, savin evergreen, cedar apple and Virginia red cedar. Taxonomic notes. Small, light blue-green clusters of flowers mature in late winter or early spring. Female and male cones are … The bark of the eastern white cedar is thin and shiny when the tree is young, but separates into flat narrow strips as the tree gets older. Eastern red cedar cant are used here in the USA and exported overseas. The tree has scale-like, closely oppressed, glandular leaves. The names of the trees which provide the bark material are Thuja plicata, the Western redcedar and Callitropsis nootkatensis, or yellow cypress (often called "yellow cedar"). Height. The bark is red-brown in color, exfoliating in long, fibrous strips, often ashy gray where exposed. Because of its strength, red cedar is much harder to log in the hills than other trees. The trunk is strongly tapered, often gnarled with thin reddy-brown bark. With the intent that they’ll mature into a privacy block. Linnaeus 1753, p. 1039. Eastern red cedar is a small, conical tree that commonly colonizes fields after agriculture is abandoned. The foliage is blue-green to green and needlelike. The trees are shaped like a pyramid or column with grayish to reddish-brown bark.