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Thuja plicata
(redirected from Western redcedar)

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Noun1.Thuja plicata - large valuable arborvitae of northwestern United StatesThuja plicata - large valuable arborvitae of northwestern United States
genus Thuja, Thuja - red cedar
arborvitae - any of several Asian and North American conifers of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis


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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PACIFIC NORTHWEST Western Redcedar (931 points): Outside of California, the Quinault Lake Cedar is one of the biggest trees in the world, although it is quite hollow and the above ground living tissue is restricted to a two-foot-wide strip of bark that services one of the smaller upper trunks.
When siding becomes wet on its back side, objectionable streaked bleeding of water-soluble extractives may occur, particularly with highly colored wood species such as redwood and western redcedar (Figure 2).
; 311 feet tall; 72 feet around; 101-foot spread - 1,203 points 5: Western redcedar (Thuja) Olympic National Park, Wash.
 
 
 
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