
Eastern Redcedar
- Botanical Name
- Juniperus virginiana
- Hardiness
- Zones 3b to 9
- Height
- Up to 50 feet
- Width
- 8 to 20 feet
- Flowers
- Dioecious, some monoecious, not ornamentally important
- Fruit
- Fleshy cone, blue with a whitish bloom
- Light
- Full sun
- Soil
- Moist, well-drained
- Planting & Care
- Transplant balled and burlap
- Tolerates a wide range of situations including salt
- Problems
- Cedar-apple rust, bagworm
- Varieties
- Hillspire - male, pyramidal, maintains green foliage in winter
- Burkii'- male, blue-green foliage is tinged with purple in winter, 20'
- Grey Owl - low spreading, 18"x3-6', silver-blue foliage
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