UBC Botanical Garden

Common name: incense cedar

Family: Cupressaceae (cypress family)

Distribution: w USA; Baja (Mexico)

IUCN Red list: Least concern

Life form: Tree

Leaf Persistence: Evergreen

Timber: Incense-cedar is an important commercial softwood species. Its wood, exceptionally resistant to decay and highly durable when exposed to weather, is manufactured into many products, including lumber, pencil stock (for which it is the major United States source), fence posts, shakes, and landscape timbers, which are attractive because of punky spots resulting from fungus. (FNA)