Calocedrus decurrens
Sold as: Bare Root Plants
Incense Cedar (Calocedrus decurrens) has a distinct symmetrical shape and can get up to 90 feet tall in its native habitat. Many birds depend on insects that live on Incense Cedar, including woodpeckers, brown creepers, red-breasted nuthatches, and golden-crowned kinglets. Birds use the dense foliage for nesting in the summer and shelter in the winter. This tree is also the preferred host of a wood wasp, Syntexis libocedrii, a living fossil species which lays its eggs in the smoldering wood immediately after a forest fire.
Classification: Perennial
Key Characteristics: Fragrant leaves, cones
Light Requirements: Full sun
Water Requirements: Dry soil
Ease of Growing: High
Growth Rate: Slow
Bloom Time: January
Spreads: No
Benefits: Wildlife, Wildfire resistant, Deer resistant, On Portland Plant List
Edible: No
Mature Height: 90 feet
Mature Width: 30 feet
