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Old 20-08-2006, 05:13 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Type of conifer? Identification


John wrote:
The crushed leaves smell like....pine!!


If in the spring the club shaped flowers (at the end of each leaves)
turn bright red it's a female Lawson's cypress. Do you have cones on it
(these arrive around now aug/sept) and does it droop at the top and
does it smells like parsley and the trunk is red at first then
grey/brown and then flaky? It's a lawson. If it branches horizontaly,
is multi trunked (bark peels vertically in strips) and the cones are
opening really wide like a aniseed seed and finally its under folliage
green is darker than the upper, it's a thuja.