Cedar Juniperus virginiana--Red Cedar (Page background: Pencil Cedar Wood) Twig with fruit The bark    Medium sized tree to 30 m, broadly pyramidical to narrowly columnar. Bark brown, shredded, short scale leaves in close overlapping pairs, forming 4-sided twigs; (juvenile leaves are longer, flat, pointed, more distant and in whorls of 3) leaves vary from yellowish green to bluish green; fragrant. Male cones 3–4 mm long, on tips of small twigs, shedding pollen as early as January, as late as March; female cones small, inconspicuous, on tips of short branches, generally receptive for pollen several days after the cones on male trees have started shedding pollen; mature as bluish black, glaucous "berries" by October - November of first year. (Radford et al., 1968).     In addition to being one of the major incenses, Red Cedar wood is also highly prized for making Tipi poles, drums, flutes and other items.     Cedar twigs are often bundled up into 'smudgeing' bundles - many of these are sold in 'new age' shops and are most likely quite 'old age!' Besides, you don't know who picked them or if they just hacked them off the tree - probably the latter. Gather your own, and if you can't find Red Cedar, use Arborvitae (thuja occidentalis or similar.)    Cedar twigs and leaves don't hold an ember well, so you should sprinkle pieces of them on glowing charcoal if you are using them for incense.   Aliases: Amerikaanse magnolia, amerikansk rod-ceder, bleistift-zeder, blyerts-en, cedar, cederhoutboom, cedre, cedre de Virginie, cedre rouge, cedre rouge americain, cedro per matite, cedro rosso americano, cedro vermelho, coast juniper, coast red cedar, eastern red juniper, eastern red cedar, enebro americano, enebro criollo, enebro rojo americano, enebro virginiano, genevrier rouge, genevrier rouge de l'Amerique, ginepri d'america, ginepro della Virginia, Ienuparul virginiana, juniper, pencil cedar, pencil juniper, red juniper, red cedar, rod-en, sabina de costa, sand cedar, savin, savin red cedar, southern juniper, southern red cedar, southern red juniper, Tennessee red cedar, Virginiaanse jeneverbes, Virginian cedar, Virginian pencil, cedar, Virginische zeder, Virginische potlood-ceder, virginische sevenboom, virginischer wacholder.

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