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Needles are scale-like, overlapping, blue-green, and evergreen forming fan-shaped sprays. Bark is gray to red-brown and fibrous, on large trees becoming ash-gray, shallowly grooved and sometimes twisted around the tree. Cone is small about 1/4 inch in diameter, round, purple and fleshy, becoming woody brown with peltate scales when mature. Atlantic white-cedar is found in fresh water bogs in the eastern coastal plain.  Intermediate shade tolerance.  The soft and decay resistant wood is used for fencing, shingles and boats.

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