Object Details
- Hardiness
- -30 - 10 F
- Ethnobotanical Uses
- Native Northwest Coastal people of the US and Canada used this tree to make everything from bows to bowls, and even ceremonial masks. The inner bark was used to make cloth and baskets.
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Accession Number
- 2019-0330A
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Life Form
- Evergreen tree
- Average Height
- 20 to 35'
- Bark Characteristics
- Shredding, red-brown bark
- Cone Characteristics
- Cones are round, brown, and .33-.5" across. Ripen in their second year.
- Foliage Characteristics
- Blue-green needles do not have white markings (like those typical of chamaecyparis). Unpleasant odor when crushed.
- Structure
- Pyramidal; weeping
- Range
- cultivated
- Habitat
- Bottomlands along streams
- See more items in
- Smithsonian Gardens Tree Collection
- On Display
- Smithsonian Castle
- Common Name
- Weeping Alaskan Cedar
- Weeping Nootka Cypress
- Weeping Sitka Cypress
- Weeping Yellow Cedar
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Pinidae
- Order
- Cupressales
- Family
- Cupressaceae
- Genus
- Callitropsis
- Species
- nootkatensis
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Topic
- Trees
- Living Collections
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2019-0330A
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ax79ce20651-40d9-4944-8d19-c8fb616f3586
