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Boring a White Cedar

Started by Kevin, March 20, 2004, 05:22:09 PM

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SwampDonkey

Stephen:

In University we were taught that the common name was eastern white cedar abreviated as Ce. No mention of northern white cedar here. We studied both eastern and western commercial tree species in Canada and we have all the species common to the northern half of the US as well, except some of the hickories. I know if you get your hands on the book called 'Native Trees of Canada' there are different common names, such as Arbor-vitae. Our professor was as strict on common names as the latin ones. I know there is a eastern red cedar, I've seen it in pasture land in Virginia. And that Virginia pine has subtle differences from our jack pine.

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Stephen_Wiley

Hi Swamp,

Prof's are good at demanding 'one description' . However, there is always more than one Prof. :D :D

I accept your description - now being it is your neck of the woods.  What do we do with the common name of: "Northern White Cedar' bind it to the trees - North of where?

Is the hyphen proper taxonomy on ' Arbor-vitae' ?
All my references show 'Arborvitae'.   ( ' Tree-White' )

I know Douglas-fir is the proper form indicating 'false'  fir.
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tony_marks

usually when i see that center rot i blame it on ants as they are usually still in the tree.. altho i would think cedar would be a bug repellent . i see this in oak an such,more.
 i mite add if u fellows ever have a situation where u cant get rid of fleas ...try cedar shavings. i  raised an bred pit bulls for yrs. i had a mutant flea on my place that would use seven dust for building and just enjoyed the bath if i dipped the dogs... but cedar shavings put them on the run. :)

SwampDonkey

QuoteHi Swamp,

Prof's are good at demanding 'one description' . However, there is always more than one Prof. :D :D

I accept your description - now being it is your neck of the woods.  What do we do with the common name of: "Northern White Cedar' bind it to the trees - North of where?

Is the hyphen proper taxonomy on ' Arbor-vitae' ?
All my references show 'Arborvitae'.   ( ' Tree-White' )

I know Douglas-fir is the proper form indicating 'false'  fir.

Stephen:

I was only relaying my experience while having to study dendrology under an old mizer for detail. I think the local common name rules the day, regardless of any professor's view point. There are some folks that call Tulip tree , Tulip poplar......its not even a poplar, the flower doesn't even resemble a tulip either, but the leaves are kinda the shape of a tulip blossum. But, I'm not anyone to argue with it. I think we all know what tree we are talking about, so it doesn't matter, least of all to me. :)

Harlow, Harrar and White call it Northern white-cedar; eastern arborvitae in "Textbook of Dendrology" in the Maritimes we call it eastern white cedar. As long as we know the latin, doesn't really matter. I don't know the significance of calling it northern since there probably isn't a southern white cedar, and after all its an eastern tree species. Take it from there.  :)

What about yellow cypress? Shouldn't it be yellow-cypress? Since, its not a true cypress. Another name for it is Alaskan Cedar and its not a true cedar either. Isn't it fun? ;)  We also call eastern larch, tamarack. Before I went to Forestry school it was tamarack and its still tamarack no matter how much the professor tried to convince us otherwise. :D :D

cheers
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Stephen_Wiley

Swamp D.,

Folks out here will also call Western Larch - Tamarack.  
Yes looking at botanical and common names is somewhat fun.  ;)
 
It is sometimes interesting to read the arguments for taxonomy derisions. But, personally I think it is a waste of time as the majority will only know or need to know of a common name. Besides people are quick to adapt.......after all this conversation has convinced me that the trees you have are Eastern White Cedar.

Note the botanical etymology of Thuja occidentalis is:
Tree-White Western now is'nt that interesting  :D  
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SwampDonkey

Stephen:

Blame it on the Swedes, darn Linnaeus   :D :D

I wonder who Richard was, the guy that debunked Linnaeus on the bald cypress taxonomy. I got some reference to an English priest/botonist in one web search. There has even been more recent changes like black cottonwood used to be populous balsamifera var. tricocarpa now the balsamifera is dropped and balsam poplar was populous balsamifera var. balsamifera   hmmmm I can't even tell the difference aside from the size difference at maturity.
All I know is that around here, when you clearcut a cedar stand it gets over run by balsam poplar and as time goes by the cedar grows up underneath and the poplar dies out and you've got mature cedar, maybe with black or white spruce, white birch, yellow birch, red maple, aspen and ash. I was on a woodlot all this week that had the black spruce mixed with the cedar and on my lot its white spruce regenerating with the cedar. Now my lot has alot of black spruce (50 acres of it) but its been transplanted there. When I see the growth rate and girth of the natural white spruce I wonder what we were thinking to plant that slow growing black spruce :D :D Well I had nothing to do with it actually, it was father's preference or the available planting stock at the time. And I was climbing mountains 4000 miles away on the other coast.  shrug

:D
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woodbeard

I had one red cedar that was very stressed, so I sat down and told it the story of my life.
Talk about boring a cedar- it laid right down and fell asleep
Didn't even have to start up my chainsaw.

oldsaw-addict

 :D :D :D :D :D :D  I just read your reply Woodbeard, I cant stop rolling around on the floor laughing. :D :D :D :D
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Stephen_Wiley

Swamp D,

Ifn, ya find out who 'Richard' was tell him he needs to take a dendro class that includes looking as well as reading.

I had not heard of the recent taxonomy changes including 'balsamifera'.  Does not surprise me though.  Got the same problem with argumentative botanical names of  fungus pathogens. e.g. Poria, Penniporia, Porus, etc.

Becoming immuned to it......kinda a like those letters that you read in which the first and the last letter are correct, but everything in between is misspelled.  One can still get the jest of the writer.

Is the Poplar acting as a phytoremediator ? What's the generation rotation of  cedar - poplar - cedar? (60 years +....)

What mountains were you climbing 4000 miles from home ???
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Stephen_Wiley

QuoteI had one red cedar that was very stressed, so I sat down and told it the story of my life.
Talk about boring a cedar- it laid right down and fell asleep
Didn't even have to start up my chainsaw.

Hey Woodbeard,

That is o.k.............you would not have got the chainsaw started either. It went into hybernation long before the tree laid down.  :D  :D  :D  :D  :D
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SwampDonkey

Stephen:

I'm pretty sure Richard is long expired, so that the point is mute. ;)

And fungi such as Sirococus conigenus was strobilinus which has devistated red pine plantations in Nova Scotia. Its a shoot blight. I'm convinced that it has infected my ornamental red pine tree in the back yard. The leader was killed 3 years ago and the stem is being attacked by sap suckers. All my other red pine which are indiginous to New Brunswick and Ottawa valley in Ontario are disease free. I suspect the seed source of the ornamental red pine was from Minnesota which is what NS plantations were established from. In NB our red pine plantations have been doing really well especially on adandoned farmland.  In NS their red pine plantations are from seed sources not indiginous to NS because our natural pine is not a good seeder in this region. Well, so i've been told by a guy from Herrington tree nursey. His credibility has since come into question by me and others. ;)


Oh, the mountains I was climbing were on the Queen Charlotte Islands off the BC Coast, Sommerville Island off the Alaskan Pan handle, and Coast Mountains near Meziadin Junction in BC and not far from Stewart, BC and Hyder, Alaska. Ever get Hyderized? :)

Balsam poplar generally invades a cedar clear cut the first couple seasons and grows 1 to 2 meters a year for the first 10-15 years, then 0.3-0.5 m there after. Cedar grows slow as you know but its a prolific seeder, some sites spruce establishes well and of course balsam fir. But the poplar and fir generally grow 80-110 years here, shorter life span to the south (60-90). Cedar is of course very shade tolerant and generally will dominate by 100 years of age and will grow to an age of 180- 250 years around here. Spruce will begin to die out of a cedar stand at age 150 or less, depending on drainage. Mature fir will be long gone by age 80, but will sometimes carpet the understory if the drainage isn't too poor. So, basically the cycle will be around 90 years for cedar to dominate the stand again. If its a good cedar site yellow birch and white ash will be common. Sometimes instead of balsam poplar you have trembling aspen or large toothed aspen, but they are on the dryer cedar sites. I could take some pictures of different development stages this week and post them, to give you an idea of the progression. The woods here now are getting pretty sloppy with temps in the upper 40's and mid 50's. There's not going to be much snow here in a weeks time and its going to be a really dry spring unfortunately.

cheers
"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

Stephen_Wiley

Swamp D.:

Pics, would be great - I enjoy seeing stand rotation and development. Also like seeing flora differentiating  with dry - wet stands.

Although not a common problem, I have discovered Sirococus spp. on a few landscape trees out here in the PNW. Coverage was over 80% of the trees infecting mostly new shoot growth.

I think you have good cause to question your Nurseryman's source.  Since your NB red pines are doing well.

No, I have not got Hyderized !  Got friends up that way, who I am sure would want to introduce me to the term.


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