The giant arborvitae, incense cedar, and some junipers (viz., red cedar) provide the familiar "cedarwood" of pencils, chests, closet linings, and fence posts; an oil distilled from the wood is used in many toiletries.
Poplars, pines, and arborvitae (an aromatic evergreen tree of the cypress family) are planted around settlements, along roads, and on the coasts.
Many members of the cypress family are important as timber sources or ornamentals, especially arborvitae, cypress, bald cypress, and juniper.
Retinospora, a condition common in horticultural varieties of conifers, especially arborvitae, junipers, cypresses, and false cypresses, in which needlelike, spreading juvenile leaves persist on adult trees that normally have small, scalelike leaves, pressed against the stem.
The lower elevations have dense forests of giant Douglas firs, western red cedars (giant arborvitae), and mountain hemlocks.
Dry regions are populated with green oak and arborvitae (a species of pine tree) which form light, dry forests with a thin and bushy undergrowth.
Western red cedar (Thuja plicata), also called western arborvitae, giant arborvitae, or Pacific red cedar, an ornamental and timber evergreen conifer of the cypress family (Cupressaceae), native to the Pacific coast of North America.
Woodworking was facilitated by the abundance of easily worked species of trees, especially the giant arborvitae (Thuja plicata, also known as red cedar) and the redwood (Sequoia sempervirens).
The best spot for this business was the far corner of the back yard, in the middle of a thicket of arborvitae that concealed the deer fencing, fencing in name only, since the deer came and went with impunity.
There was a band of utter darkness where a stone wall and close-grown arborvitae cast a shadow onto the boulevard.
