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Key to Conifers
Thuja - Arbor Vitae
Trees and shrubs; branchlets forming distinctly flattened
sprays; leaves scale-like, opposite; cones small, 1-2 cm long.
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Thuja occidentalis 'Nigra' - Eastern Arbor Vitae
(Photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
VA)
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Thuja orientalis - Branchlets and mature seed
cone.
(Photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
VA)
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Thuja plicata - Western Red Cedar.
(Photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
VA)
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