Taxon: Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don

Common names:

• canoe-cedar   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – English
  
• giant arborvitae   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – English
  
• giant-cedar   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – English
  
• Pacific red-cedar   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – English
  
• shinglewood   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – English
  
• western arborvitae   (Source: HerbSpices ) – English
  
• western red-cedar   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• thuya de Lobb   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  
• thuya géant   (Source: HerbSpices ) – French
  
• tuia gigante   (Source: Mult Glossary Trees ) – Italian
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide AH 519; F NAmer)
  
• Materials: essential oils   (fide HerbSpices)
  
• Materials: wood   (fide AH 519)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

More:

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Subarctic America: United States - Alaska
  Western Canada: Canada - Alberta, British Columbia
  Northwestern U.S.A.: United States - Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington
  Southwestern U.S.A.: United States - California

• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: Denmark; Norway; United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Austria; Germany
  Southeastern Europe: Italy
  Southwestern Europe: Portugal

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Jiangsu, Jiangxi
• AUSTRALASIA
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Europe

References:

• Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand.
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature.
• Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. 1986–1987. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. 2:411.
• Farjon, A. 2005. A monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys. 152–155.
• International Seed Testing Association. 1971. A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 2. Trees.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1978. Important forest trees of the United States.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Thuja plicata.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Thuja plicata.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Thuja plicata.

Synonyms:

• (=) Thuja gigantea Nutt.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Thuja plicata Donn ex D. Don:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Thuja plicata cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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