• Western Red Cedar, Western red-cedar, Thulja plicata

  • Incense Cedar, Incense-cedar, Calocedrus decurrens

  • Alaska Cedar, Alaska-cedar, Callitropsis nootkatensis  (formerly Chamaecyparis nootkatensis)

  • Port Orford Cedar, Port Orford-cedar, Chamaecyparis lawsoniana

The above hyphenated common names are more appropriate for they connote the fact that the species is not a true cedar, i.e., Cedrus

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branch sprays
scale-like leaves