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Atlantic White cedar
This an atlantic cedar in the 'Forêt des cèdres' (Cedar Forest) in France.
This stand was planted from 1861 through seeds collected in the Algerian Atlas mountains (species Cedrus atlantica). The first trees begin breeding around 1920. Ten years later it was noted 60 acres. To date, the cedar form a massive 250 hectares.
''Chamaecyparis thyoides'' , is a species of ''Chamaecyparis'', native to the Atlantic coast of North America from Maine south to Georgia, with a disjunct population on the Gulf of Mexico coast from Florida to Mississippi. It grows on wet sites on the coastal plain at altitudes from sea level up to 50 m, more rarely in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains up to 460 m altitude. The common name "Atlantic White Cedar" has been rejected by the American Joint Committee on Horticultural Nomenclature,.. more
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