The wood is used for shingles posts pilings boat making greenhouse fittings and other purposes for which resistance to moisture and decay is more important than strength.
Red cedar wood tree.
Also known as cedrus.
Western red cedar wood is considered the most valuable of all softwoods because of its fine straight grain color flexibility and strength in proportion to weight however the most important property of cedar wood is its high impermeability to liquids and its natural phenol preservatives which make it ideally suited for.
Western red cedar is a popular ornamental and hedge tree in north america and great britain.
Toona ciliata is a forest tree in the mahogany family which grows throughout southern asia from afghanistan to papua new guinea and australia.
In tree form it is more commonly called eastern redcedar while the wood itself is usually referred to as aromatic red cedar.
Juniperus virginiana known as red cedar eastern redcedar virginian juniper eastern juniper red juniper pencil cedar and aromatic cedar is a species of juniper native to eastern north america from southeastern canada to the gulf of mexico and east of the great plains.
Further west it is replaced by the related juniperus scopulorum rocky mountain juniper and to the southwest by.
Eastern red cedar wood.
However there are some trees that reach 100 m or taller.
Scientifically known as juniperus virginiana eastern red cedar belongs to the cypress family as well.