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Alaska-cedar, Alaska yellow-cedar, yellow-cypress

Habit Trees or shrubs to 40m tall; mature crown conic.
Leaves

opposite, 4-ranked; scale-like, 1.5–2.5 mm long, green to bluish green, not glaucous, rarely resinous.

Pollen cones

2–5 mm long.

Seeds

2–4 per scale, 2–6 mm; reddish brown; sharp pointed; somewhat flattened;

wing greater than or equal to width of body.

Trunks

to 2m in diameter;

bark grayish brown, fissured to expose a bright brown inner bark; up to 2 cm thick;

branches spreading and drooping;

branchlets in flat clusters; less than 3.5 mm in diameter.

Seed cones

nearly globose, 0.6–1.2 cm wide, dark red-brown, glaucous, resinous;

scales 4–6;

umbos present.

Callitropsis nootkatensis

Distribution
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Discussion

Mid-elevation mountainous slopes. 1000–2100 m. BW, Casc, Sisk. CA, WA; north to AK. Native.

Callitropsis nootkatensis is not normally harvested for timber in Oregon but is of commercial importance in other states where it is more numerous. This species is distinguished from somewhat similar Hesperocyparis bakeri by its flat clusters of branchlets.

Source Flora of Oregon, volume 1, page 109
Stephen Meyers
Sibling taxa
C. nootkatensis
Synonyms Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, Cupressus nootkatensis
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