Northern white-cedar has also been called eastern white cedar and swamp-cedar. The name "arborvitae" meaning "tree of life" was given the tree and was the first North American tree to be ...

Interestingly, eastern white cedar is called the Tree of Life by the indigenous Ojibwe while western red cedar bears the same title as the Haida. The Ojibwe call the tree Nookomis Giizhik ...

Atlantic white cedar (sometimes called Eastern white cedar ... a "sustainable environmental superstar," outpacing nearly any ...

Such is the case with northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis). Also known as eastern white cedar, this tree grows throughout the Northeast, but only in certain places, in part because it has evolved ...

The term comes from modern Latin and simply means "tree of life ... occidentalis), also commonly referred to as the eastern ...

Consider whether it’s a native tree, and what the expected life span might be. Conifers that are native to Indiana comprise a fairly short list. They include eastern redcedar, jack pine, eastern white ...