Port Orford Cedar

Other names

Lawson False Cypress

Growth habit

Tree

Perennation

Long-lived polycarpic perennial

Native distribution

Southwest OR to Northwest CA

Location

Comstock Knoll and Rhododendron Collection, Conifer Slope

Source of plant

Richard Sniezko, USFS, Richard Sniezko, USFS, University of CA Arboretum

Description

20-50 m tall acutely conical tree with short, horizontally spreading branches and nodding branch tips. Bark reddish-brown with rounded scaly plates. Branchlets flat, in an even plane, needles appressed, more or less acute, the lateral leaves keeled with a distinct tip, the facial leaves much smaller, rhombic, often with a gland, the underside with indistinct white lines; cones numerous, small, globose, 8 mm thick, blue-green at first, ripening in the first fall, then becoming brown, 8 scales with compressed papillae.

USDA Hardiness Zone

6