Calocedrus decurrens

• Grow your own Incense Cedar, a cinnamon-colored and fragrant conifer!
  
• Bulk tree deal for landscaping projects, windbreaks, restoration and reforestation work, and other large-scale plantings
• Seed-grown on California's Redwood Coast
• Transplanting and care instructions included
  
  
  

Highlights

	Moisture Low
	Cold Hardiness -20°F
	Light Full Sun / Partial Shade
	Size 120 – 200' tall / 30 – 50' spread
	Lifespan 1,000 yrs
	Growth Rate Medium
	Drought Tolerance High
	Wind Resistance High

Tree Story

About Incense Cedar

Native to mountain forests in Oregon, California, Nevada, and Baja California, the Incense Cedar (Calocedrus decurrens) is one of the West's most impressive trees. At maturity, the Incense Cedar is an immense, symmetrical conifer with graceful, bright green plumes of aromatic, lace-like foliage and a heavily-buttressed trunk clad in deeply-furrowed, cinnamon-colored bark. Incense Cedars can be cultivated as ornamentals throughout the United States, and are especially good in arid regions. They are handsome, muscular trees with a multitude of unique characteristics, including their lush sprays of flattened foliage, plentiful cones — which resemble open ducks' bills — showy bark, and, of course, their spicy fragrance (from which they get their name).

Incense Cedars tolerate drought and salt quite well, and will grow in very dry soil and full sun, yet they also perform well in shadier, wetter conditions, giving the home gardener a variety of planting options. Without knowing it, most everyone is familiar with the wood of the Incense Cedar — we've all held it in our hands, and many of us have even gnawed on it. Because it resists splintering, Incense Cedar is used to make virtually all wooden pencils!

Size Charts

Seedling Size Charts

Due to the dynamic nature of actively growing trees, as well as the tremendous variation between species’ growth rates, we rely on the cubic volume of a seedling’s root mass to determine its “size” (Small / Medium / Large / XL). Within each size there is minor variance — the dimensions provided here represent the category minimum. If exact measurements are essential, please contact us about current stock.

Small: