Thuja plicata
ζ*Thuja plicata D. Don ζ*, western red cedar, has been collected wild at Lake Coleridge and Hanmer, inland Canterbury. A tree with flattened, often very aromatic, sprays of scale-like foliage and branchlets; ♀ cones ± oblong, semi-woody; scales 6-12, imbricate, ± flattened, only the middle 2-3 pairs fertile; seeds 2-3 to each scale, very unequally winged. This sp. is very commonly planted for ornament, shelter and less often, timber. It occasionally regenerates in partially open sites in the vicinity of parent trees. It is the commonest of the 3 spp. of the genus regularly in cultivation in N.Z. (W. North America, 1957).
