Scientific name: Thuja occidentalis ‘Smaragd’

Common name:  emerald cedar

Family name: Cupressaceae

Useful cultivars and selections:

USDA hardiness zone: 3

Mature height and spread: 3-5m tall, 1-1.5m wide

Form: columnar. Upright, compact, conical.

Water use: moderate

Soil requirements: well-drained. Humus rich

Leaf arrangement: scale-like. Opposite.

Fall colour: none

Flower/cone/fruit description: cone. Flower looking.

Limitations: not as uniform without sun. needs moisture before established.

Suitable uses: hedge row. Screening. Very tolerant once established. Doesn’t need pruning (wont grow back).

Quick ID: conifer. Tree Evergreen. Scale-like, imbricate, opposite in fan-shaped bunches. Less horizontal fans than T. Occidentalis Fasitgiata’’and thicker needles. Light green underside.

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