The California incense cedar is also valued for its drought tolerance.

A unique pine and incense cedar forest occurs at the highest elevations of the mountain.

It is filled with young ferns and incense cedar, bay laurel and black oak.

The single species, A. nitidula is known colloquially in Australia as incense cedar.

The feather was carved from an incense cedar from the nearby mountain community of Idyllwild.

Incense cedars, whose smell repels moths, become closet lining, fenceposts and pencils.

She knew enough to be surprised that incense cedar and yellow-wood grew side by side, that a strawberry was still in flower.

It is by far the most widely-known species in the genus, and is often simply called "incense cedar" without the regional qualifier.

Calocedrus formosana, Taiwan incense cedar, is endemic on Taiwan.

On the other hand a drought-tolerant gem, the California incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens), is largely ignored.

Calocedrus (common name incense cedar) is a genus of four species of coniferous trees in the cypress family Cupressaceae.

Calocedrus decurrens, California incense cedar (syn.

Vegetation in this area includes Jeffery pine, ponderosa pine, incense cedar, and sugar pine.

The Grant tree sits in a clearing ringed by white fir, sugar pine and incense cedar, dwarfing these more mundane evergreens.

Near the trailhead at lower elevations, alder thickets are present, as well as incense cedar, red firs, and western white pine.

Incense cedar (Calocedrus decurrens)

Common tree species in the forests along the upper Rogue include incense cedar, white fir, and Shasta red fir.

The surface was glassy, reflecting granite spires and the smattering of white firs and incense cedars that grew on the slopes.

Incense cedar was the preferred hearth board of the Native Peoples of Northern California for friction firemaking.

EIGHT The cabin was high up on the side of the mountain, against a thick growth of digger pine, oak and incense cedar.

Forested areas have incense cedar, white fir, Ponderosa pine, several types of oaks with Pacific dogwood and maple in riparian zones.

The trees share their real estate with incense cedar, western sycamore, conifers, fire-prone creosote bushes and the California fuchsia with its merry scarlet trumpets.

Spencer Meadows National Recreation Trail is a six-mile (10 km) path through aspen groves, meadow areas, incense cedar, and bubbling springs.

The conifers include the white fir, incense cedar, Coulter pine, Jeffrey pine, sugar pine and ponderosa pine.

Towards the summit there are more conifer trees, such as Douglas Fir, Ponderosa Pine, and Incense Cedar.

It is one of a number of extinct species placed in the living genus Calocedrus.

The wood of Calocedrus is soft, moderately decay-resistant, and with a strong spicy-resinous fragrance.

In its characteristics, Fokienia is intermediate between the genera of Chamaecyparis and Calocedrus.

Calocedrus formosana (syn.

Calocedrus decurrens, California incense cedar (syn.

Its closest relatives are Platycladus, Microbiota and Calocedrus, with the closest resemblance to the latter.

Calocedrus rupestris, the most recently discovered living species of Calocedrus, was identified in Vietnam and first described in 2004.

Calocedrus decurrens, the California incense cedar, is a popular ornamental tree, grown particularly in locations with cool summer climates like Britain, Washington and British Columbia.

Many of the species are important timber sources, especially in the genera Calocedrus, Chamaecyparis, Cryptomeria, Cunninghamia, Cupressus, Sequoia, Taxodium, and Thuja.

These genera are rather similar to the Northern Hemisphere genera Calocedrus and Thuja: in earlier days, what is now Calocedrus was sometimes included in Libocedrus.

It began active expansion in 1996 with new collections added in response to the severe storm of 1999, and now contains over 60 labeled tree species including hundred-year-old specimens of calocedrus, sequoia, and taxodium.

While the foliage of C. huashanensis is similar in overall appearance to several Cupressaceae genera, the details of the cuticle structure and overall morphology indicate the species is part of the genus Calocedrus.

A cedar leaf oil is also commercially distilled from the Eastern arborvitae (Thuja occidentalis, also of the Cupressaceae), and similar oils are distilled, pressed or chemically extracted in small quantities from wood, roots and leaves from plants of the genera Platycladus, Cupressus, Taiwania and Calocedrus.