Thuja plicata, commonly called western red cedar or Pacific red cedar, giant arborvitae or. In addition to growing in lush forests and mountainsides, western redcedar is also a riparian tree, growing in many forested swamps and streambanks. However, specimens in such conditions will take longer to grow upward than those in standard soil. A tall, conical, evergreen tree, reaching up to 65m.
Some specimens of western red cedar can live to be over a thousand years old. It is pyramidal in shape, with a.
Leaves Scale- like. Western redcedar leaves. A fungus called Didymascella thujina causes a disease called Keithia blight, which affects the western red cedar quite badly. These trees can grow to huge sizes, over meters tall with a. Photos by (clockwise from bottom left): Ian Thomas, Jessica Brown, Stuart Higgs ( culturally modified tree ), and Amy Hartzenberg.