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Started by minesmoria, October 19, 2008, 12:03:50 AM

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minesmoria

Here on the  pacific coast some people call yellow ceder, cypress, is yellow ceder willy a cypresss tree or whats up with the names like alaska yellow ceder.

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minesmoria

Whereabouts along the coast are you located?

A quote from a USDA bulletin says

Alaska-cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis), also known as Alaska yellow-cedar, yellow-cedar, Alaska cypress, and Nootka cypress, is an important timber species of northwestern America.

So you have a list to pick from.  :) :)
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minesmoria

I am in wet prince rupert,  the wood sure is nice when it is split its seems to be way different then of red ceder, its very hard and will last longer then red as well.

There does not seem to be lots of this slowing growing tree out there.

Dodgy Loner

The tree most people know as the Alaska yellow-cedar is actually a member of the Cypress family (Cupressaceae).  The true cedars (such as cedar-of-Lebanon and deodar cedar) acre members of the Pine family (Pinaceae).  Common names can be confusing :)
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SwampDonkey

Yellow cypress are up in the mountains above 400 meters. Around Prince Rupert you have red cedar down on those coastal flats. On your neighboring Charlotte Islands I've seen some nice ones over 4 feet on the but, but mostly around 2 feet. A lot of those hills have been logged quite hard.
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