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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Atlantic White Cypress
Atlantic White Cypress (Chamaecyparis thyoides), is an evergreen coniferous tree in the genus Chamaecyparis, of the cypress family Cupressaceae.
Atlantic white cedar is native to the Coastal Plain of the eastern US from central Maine south to northern Florida and west to southern Mississippi.
The sapwood of Atlantic white cedar is narrow and white, while the heartwood is light brown with a reddish or pinkish tinge.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Atlantic-White-Cypress   (325 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hinoki cypress
Hinoki false cypress is an evergreen conifer with attractive soft and stringy reddish brown bark, and drooping flat frondlike branchlets bearing small scalelike leaves.
The scalelike leaves of Hinoki false cypress are borne in pairs of two unequal sizes and shapes, and this is one way to tell Hinoki false cypress from the otherwise similar Sawara false cypress (Chamaecyparis pisifera) which has all of its adult leaves the same size and shape.
Chamaecyparis obtusa, the Hinoki false cypress is native to southern Japan and the island of Taiwan.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hinoki-cypress   (459 words)

  
 bald cypress - Encyclopedia.com
The bald cypresses (genus Taxodium) were widely distributed in the geologic past but are now restricted to the SE United States and Mexico.
The bald cypress family is classified in the division Pinophyta, class Pinopsida, order Coniferales.
Spare the rod and it might spoil the tree: To protect the Paca garden's 65-foot bald cypress tree from lightning, a copper wire has been installed along the length of its towering trunk.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc.aspx?id=1E1:baldcypr   (1012 words)

  
 Atlantic White Cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) - Chesapeake Bay Program
The Atlantic white cedar is an aromatic conifer from the Cypress family that may grow to a height of 100 feet.
The white cedar’s juvenile evergreen leaves differ from its mature foliage: young foliage is needle-like, growing in a spiral arrangement on fast-growing branchlets; mature leaves are up to 1/8th of an inch long and scalelike, with a tiny resinous dot-like gland underneath.
Individual white cedars are capable of surviving for 1,000 years, but it is rare for stands of white cedar to survive more than 200 years.
www.chesapeakebay.net /Info/atlantic_white_cedar.cfm   (418 words)

  
 Restoring an Atlantic White Cedar Bog
Mature Atlantic white cedar bogs provide a unique habitat that has naturally acidic waters and is cooler than surrounding hardwood swamps or pinelands.
In the 1980s, the Atlantic white cedar bog was owned by a commercial operatioon that proposed to mine the area's peat and construct a large peat-to-methanol synthetic fuel plant.
Restoration of the Atlantic white cedar ecosystem is a long-term effort.
www.fws.gov /nc-es/coastal/awhitecedar.html   (990 words)

  
 Atlantic White Cedar Plant Guide | Tree Plant Guides
Atlantic white-cedar grows in a narrow coastal belt 80 to 210 km (50 to 130 miles) wide from southern Maine to northern Florida and west to southern Mississippi.
Adaptation Atlantic white-cedar is found most frequently in small dense stands in fresh water swamps and bogs, sometimes on sandy soils, but usually on acidic muck (peat).
Atlantic white-cedar is considered rare in Georgia, Mississippi, Maine, Maryland, New York, New Hampshire, and Maine.
www.gardenguides.com /plants/plantguides/trees/plantguide.asp?symbol=CHTH2   (765 words)

  
 vegetation   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bottom land forests such the Dismal Swamp are rich in and dominated by deciduous tree species such as elm, red maple, apsen, oak and ash.
Cypress trees are conifers, but they are deciduous.
Both tupelo-cypress and Atlantic white-cedar are able to grow in water up to 2m in depth.
www.uvm.edu /~cgolkin/nr260/vegetation.html   (368 words)

  
  Chamaecyparis thyoides english
Atlantic white cedar is native to the Coastal Plain of the eastern US from central Maine south to northern Florida and west to southern Mississippi.
Atlantic white cedar reaches heights of 60 feet, with diameters of 1 foot.
The sapwood of Atlantic white cedar is narrow and white, while the heartwood is light brown with a reddish or pinkish tinge.
www2.fpl.fs.fed.us /TechSheets/SoftwoodNA/htmlDocs/chamaethyoid.html   (464 words)

  
 Cypress , Red , Yellow and White - Liberty Cedar Inc
Baldcypress or cypress (Taxodium distichum) is also known as southern cypress, red cypress, yellow cypress and white cypress.
Commercially, the terms tidewater red cypress, gulf cypress, red cypress (coast type) and yellow cypress (inland type) are frequently used.
Pecky cypress is therefore durable and useful where water tightness is unnecessary, appearance is not important, or a novel effect is desired.
www.libertycedar.com /species-cypress.htm   (263 words)

  
 Atlantic white cedar swamps
Atlantic white cedars grow primarily in freshwater bogs or swamps that are usually saturated with water during the growing season.
In the largest AWC swamp, giant rhododendrons (Rhododendron maximum) grow in close proximity to the Atlantic white cedars and cinnamon ferns are abundant here.
It is known that Hessel's Hairstreak butterfly larvae are dependent on the foliage of the Atlantic white cedar for their food supply, and that the adult butterflies obtain nectar from the highbush blueberry and sweet pepperbush that grow in the shrub layer of the cedar swamps.
www.mv.com /ipusers/env/cedarswamp.html   (586 words)

  
 Eric Hinesley
Postharvest drying and rehydration of Leyland cypress, Atlantic white cedar, Virginia pine, Arizona cypress and eastern white pine Christmas trees.
Seedling growth of Atlantic white-cedar as influenced by photoperiod and day/night temperature.
Oxyfluorfen and flumioxazin toxicity on Atlantic white cedar seedlings.
www.cals.ncsu.edu /hort_sci/faculty/hinesley.html   (1209 words)

  
 Tree Totem-Trees-Bald Cypress
The Bald Cypress growing season is not reflective of the normal seasons but rather in response to the changing water level.
The common bald cypress forms dense forests in the southeastern swamplands and is a common tree of the Everglades.
Vincent Van Gogh had used cypresses in his landscape painting such as “Lane with cypresses under a starry sky,” “Wheatfield and cypress,” and “Cypress” painted around 1890.
treetotem.com /tebaldcypress.htm   (2556 words)

  
 The Nature Conservancy in Connecticut - Atlantic White Cedars and Giant Rhododendron Characterize Pawcatuck Borderlands
Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides) is a wetland tree that is restricted to coastal and near-coastal areas from New Hampshire to Florida.
In the Borderlands, white cedar is host to the globally uncommon butterfly Hessel’s hairstreak (Mitoura hesseli), and white cedar swamps with spaghnum moss are good environments for the globally rare dragonfly banded boghaunter (Williamsonia litneri).
Atlantic white cedar was probably never an abundant tree before European settlement, but it declined even further once early settlers recognized its rot-resistant qualities and harvested it in great numbers for fencing and shingles.
www.nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/connecticut/preserves/art7424.html   (310 words)

  
 cedarcensus
Atlantic white-cedar is not the tallest tree at Lakeland and hardwoods intermixed with this tree have not been struck by lightning at anywhere near this rate.
Soils on uplands of Atlantic white-cedar habitats on the western shore were either on Collington, Evesboro, Galesboro, or Sassafras fine to loamy sand on slopes ranging from 2 to 40 percent (Kirby and Matthews 1973).
Atlantic white-cedar is known to be killed by high tidal salinities (Fleming 1978), and tidal levels are known to be increasing along the eastern seaboard.
www.pitcherplant.org /papers/cedarcensus.html   (2420 words)

  
 Cypress in Florida
Cypress swamps are forested wetlands dominated by cypress trees and located along stream and river banks, spring runs or in ponds with still or slow moving water.
Montezuma cypress is a native of Mexico growing in the Central Plateau along the Pacific Coast (Harrar and Harrar 1962, Bailey and Bailey 1976, Brandt and Ewel 1989).
Cypress swamps are very popular for use as recreation areas as parks, recreation centers, wildlife refuges, as well as national and state forests.
www.sfrc.ufl.edu /Extension/pubtxt/cir1186.htm   (4019 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
It is a southern swamp, the northernmost of many along the Atlantic Ocean's coast which includes the Everglades and the Big Cypress Swamp in Florida, the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, the Congaree Swamp and Four Holes swamps of South Carolina, and some of the Carolina bays in the Carolinas.
The logging operations removed natural stands of bald cypress and Atlantic white cypress that were replaced by other forest types, particularly red maple.
Baldcypress, tupelo, maple, Atlantic white cypress, and pine are the predominant tree species found on the refuge and support the wildlife within.
www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Great_Dismal_Swamp   (1212 words)

  
 November/December 2002 - Sierra Magazine - Sierra Club
Similarly grand cypress can be found in the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains from Delaware to Texas, and in the Mississippi River valley north to southern Illinois, where the trees grow to 150 feet tall and 6 feet across.
Eastern white pine and hemlock inspire reverence in the Forest Cathedral Natural Area of Cook Forest State Park, one of the largest old-growth stands in Pennsylvania.
It’s thought to harbor the tallest white ash and American beech in the entire Northeast, and the tallest red maple, white pine, and sugar maple in New England.
www.sierraclub.org /sierra/200211/oldgrowth_printable.asp   (2269 words)

  
 Environmental Page for Wood, Steel & Glas
To understand what is necessary to ensure the white cedar habitat is properly managed, one must understand a little about the Atlantic white cedar (chamaecyparis thyoides) species.
Among the plants ideally suited to these conditions is the white cedar - it is no coincidence the very conditions making this tree well adapted to this extreme environment serve to make it so durable and decay resistant as lumber.
Like the white cedar, these woods are extremely decay resistant, and their habitats are limited to unique ecosystems.
www.whitecedar.com /Environ.htm   (866 words)

  
 Untitled Document
The highly organic soils of swamps form a thick, fl, nutrient-rich environment for the growth of water-tolerant trees such as cypress (Taxodium spp.), Atlantic white cedar (Chamaecyparis thyoides), and tupelo (Nyssa aquatica).Some swamps are dominated by shrubs, such as buttonbush or smooth alder.
Many of the bald cypress trees in cypress swamps in the U.S. were cut down in the late 1800's and the early 1900's.
The wood from the bald cypress is resistant to rot and was a popular wood for building.
www2.mcdaniel.edu /Biology/wildamerica/cypressswamps/WAswamps/wetlands.html   (1894 words)

  
 BoDD (Botanical Dermatology Database) - CUPRESSACEAE
Cypress oil, a fragrance raw material derived from this taxon by steam distillation of the leaves, was found to be moderately irritating to rabbit skin when applied under occlusion for 24 hours.
Prosser White R (1934) The Dermatergoses or Occupational Affections of the Skin.
White JC (1887) An Account of the Action of External Irritants upon the Skin.
bodd.cf.ac.uk /BotDermFolder/BotDermC/CUPR.html   (4647 words)

  
 CYPRESS, CEDAR
Some authors use the leaf configuration and the difference in the cypress 'knees' which are rounded in pond cypress as opposed to the sharp knees of the bald cypress as the means of distinguishing between the subspecies.
The wood of pond cypress shares the same characteristics as bald cypress and lumber from one tree is not distinguished from the other.
Cypress heartwood is very durable and is traditionally used for fences, pens, and other functions which require contact with the ground.
www.gate.net /~andykell/ftof/ftof2.html   (1058 words)

  
 Wood Species Supplied - Atlantic & Northern White Cedar, Deep Swamp and Old-Growth Cypress and Recycled Old Growth ...
At maturity, white cedar trees might reach a diameter of 5 feet and have a height of 120 feet.
Unlike its redwood and cypress relatives, chamaecyparis is not believed to have the potential to be long lived, as their shallow root system leaves them susceptible to wind damage.
White cedar has been prized by generations of craftsmen for its beauty and its durability.
www.whitecedar.com /Species.htm   (619 words)

  
 Cypress weevil - Eudociminus mannerheimii
The cypress weevil, Eudociminus mannerheimii (Boheman), is a native insect that breeds primarily in scarred, weakened, or fallen bald cypress (Taxodium distichum [L.] L.C. Rich) and pond cypress (T.
Although the cypress weevil has not been a frequent pest of major economic importance, its occasional damage should be recognized, and the lack of information regarding its biology, potential hosts, and management, warrants further research.
Because cypress weevils are apparently attracted to weakened or wounded trees for breeding, the health and vigor of nursery stock should be maintained.
creatures.ifas.ufl.edu /trees/beetles/cypress_weevil.htm   (878 words)

  
 White Cedar Canoe Strips
One of the most popular uses of both Atlantic and Northern white cedar is as canoe strips.
Lightweight, easily machined, supple, flexible, highly resistant to decay and indigenous to the east coast, white cedar was the choice of Native Americans hundreds of years ago and remains prized among boat and canoe builders today (hence the common name boat cedar).
We primarily mill atlantic white cedar, northern white cedar, recycled old-growth redwood and cypress, but other woods including western redcedar, old-growth cypress may also be available.
www.whitecedar.com /Canoe.htm   (345 words)

  
 Atlantic Challenge : Boats and Waterfront : Boats Catalog : Donated Boats   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Planking is 1 ½” white cedar on 3 ½” x 1 ¾” double sawn white oak frames.
Interior is eastern white pine paneling with Honduran mahogany trim.
A round bottom double-ender of lapstrake cedar over steam-bent white oak frames, she is ketch-rigged with a sail area of 52 square feet.
www.atlanticchallenge.com /boats/donated.shtm   (559 words)

  
 The Nature Conservancy in North Carolina - North River Game Land
While bald cypress is a common tree in North Carolina’s Coastal Plain swamps, virgin stands are rare.
In 1998, the Conservancy purchased 529 acres along the North River from the Canal Wood Corporation that include high quality examples of Atlantic white cedar forest and tidal freshwater marsh, and transferred the property to the Wildlife Commission.
The creek is slow moving, so it is easy to paddle upstream back to the put-in, or you may continue downstream to the wider sections of the river.
www.nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/northcarolina/preserves/art5619.html   (348 words)

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