THUJA plicata 'EXCELSA'

Western red cedar 'Excelsa'

THUJA plicata 'EXCELSA'

Western red cedar 'Excelsa'

  • Maintenance advice : Tolerates formative pruning if necessary. Prune in April or August-September.
  • Botanical/Horticultural origin : Horticultural origin : breeder Timm & Co. (DE) 1926
  • Use group : Conifers
  • Height at 10 years : 4 m
  • Width at 10 years : 3 m
  • Growth : Fast
  • Fragrance : No
  • Exposure : Sun - Half shade
  • Evergreen/Deciduous : Evergreen
  • Shape : conical, pyramidal
  • Colour of leaves : Green
  • Soil type : Garden soil
  • Uses : Hedge
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Introduced to France by Minier in 1963. Conical form, not as dense as the 'Atrovirens' variety, with more spread out branches. fast growing. Reddish grey bark. Shiny dark green foliage, even in winter. Green berries of 1.2cm, turning brown in autumn. Adapts to any soil, indifferent to pH. Forms excellent, tall and wind breaking hedges. Discovered in 1926 in a cemetery of Berlin, first distributed in Germany in 1941 and named in 1947.