Tree Identification - Eastern Red Cedar

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[mikeh]

Great info. I just found a 100+ year old foundation right next to a very large Cedar.

[ujjalmajumdar]

I'm growing an Australian red cider, toona ciliata myself. It's currently about 12 years old, and some 25 to 30 feet tall. I love large trees, there's something very fascinating about them. Glad to know about another cider species, an informative video.

[chrisquinty]

Thank you.
Eastern Red Cedar ( Juniperus virginiana ) is one of my favorite trees. Here in northwestern New Jersey it is common. Along with Eastern White Pines ( Pinus strobus ) and Red Spruce ( Picea rubrus ).

[iasimov]

Cedar has its pros and cons. Its wood has long fibers and is tough, difficult to break. It is covered with tiny spins which fall off and makes the ground beneath the tree prickly and painful to walk on with bare feet. I've heard it exudes a chemical which is toxic to competing trees. Cedars harbor a fungus which causes brown rot in peaches. I have a lot of cedar on my property. I routinely cut down cedar trees too small to make a fence post. Some cedars grow tall and straight and are good for cabin logs. Often they grow twisted and gnarly. They have branches all the way to the ground but I keep them limbed high enough to walk under. The lowest limbs on a cedar tree are usually dead and can be used for kindling. A cedar acidifies the soil beneath it making it a good place to plant shade-loving periwinkle.

[madjawa]

Great video! I've been bushcrafting here in Florida for years and I had no idea you could get fatwood from a Red cedar. I thought it just came from pines. Thanks and thumbs up!

[wheelsgonewild]

Excellent tree for a lot of things for sure

[chrispierce]

Cedar also makes a mild tea which is good and has vitamin c

[natebrown]

I'm making my entire pool deck out of Eastern red cedar

[PlanktoniusRex]

I have heard that this tree is a bit of a water hog so they prefer to grow where there is water under ground near the surface. This would be a sign of an area to perhaps dig a well. Not sure if it is true or not. I know that they grow like weeds here in eastern Oklahoma so it is not really a good indicator here. Any truth to this that you are aware of?

[ghettocountry]

Do these come in smaller shrub like plants?

[e.miller]

I think it should be pointed out that there are no Cedar trees occurring naturally in the US. Western red cedar, eastern red cedar etc. are junipers, which are in the cyprus family.

[marvinjackson]

Now do the Austrian Pine and Weeping Alaskan Cedar