Red cedar

MFA# 1993.576

MFA# 17.2214

Description

Southern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana)

• An evergreen tree, Juniperus virginiana, more commonly known as Eastern red cedar.
• An evergreen tree, Thuja plicata, native to the Pacific northwest. It is also called pacific red cedar and western red cedar.
• An evergreen tree, Juniperus virginiana

Synonyms and Related Terms

cèdre rouge (Fr.)

Resources and Citations

• Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996

• G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 426

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998