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TREE CAMPUS
Southern Redcedar
Juniperus silicicola
This densely-foliated, wide pyramidal, columnar or oval evergreen grows fairly quickly, ultimately reaching heights up to 40 feet with a 25-foot spread. Some individual plants grow wider than tall as they grow older. Some botanists do not make a distinction between Juniperus silicicola and Juniperus virginiana. Its fine-textured, medium green leaves, and drooping branchlets help to soften the rather symmetrical, oval juvenile form. Mature specimens of Southern Redcedar take on a flat-topped, almost windswept appearance, making them very picturesque. Bark and trunk on older specimens take on a delightful, 'old-tree' look.
![Southern Red Cedar 1](https://www.sjrstate.edu/treecampus/images/red_cedar1.jpg)
![Southern Red Cedar 2](https://www.sjrstate.edu/treecampus/images/red_cedar2.jpg)
![Southern Red Cedar 3](https://www.sjrstate.edu/treecampus/images/red_cedar3.jpg)
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Tree Campus information provided with permission of the Environmental Horticulture Department, UF/IFAS Extension, Publication #ENH-485, one of a series.
Original publication date November 1993. Revised December 2006. Reviewed February 2014.
For more information visit the EDIS website at
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu.