Incense Cedar
Latin Name : Calocedrus decurrens
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Calocedrus decurrens is a member of the Cupressus family, and has the Common Name of The Incense Cedar. As I have said many times before, Common Names can be very confusing. Cedar Trees belong to the Pine family. So stick to the Latin names and you’ll be in with a chance of not getting too confused. Calocedrus makes a large upright Conifer, and is ideal as an individual specimen, or if planted as a group.
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Its foliage is similar to the Cupressus.
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Cones looking a little different
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Like this example of a variegated cultivar, ‘Aureovariegata’, they mostly belong to the form ‘Columnaris’.