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Calocedrus macrolepis
Also called Chinese Incense‒cedar
Calocedrus macrolepis, commonly known as Chinese incense-cedar; is a species of conifer in the cypress family, Cupressaceae, native to southwest China (Guangdong west to Yunnan), northern Vietnam, northern Laos, extreme northern Thailand and northeastern Myanmar.
It can grow to a medium-size tree 25–35 m tall, with a trunk up to 2 m diameter. The bark is orange-brown weathering greyish, smooth at first, becoming fissured and exfoliating in long strips on the lower trunk on old trees. The foliage is produced in flattened sprays with scale-like leaves 1.5–8 mm long; they are arranged in opposite decussate pairs, with the successive pairs closely then distantly spaced, so forming apparent whorls of four; the facial pairs are flat, with the lateral pairs folded over their bases. The upper side of the foliage sprays is glossy green without stomata, the underside is white with dense stomata.
California Incense-cedar · Taiwan incense-cedar · Calocedrus huashanensis · Limestone Incense‒cedar · Incense-cedar
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Calocedrus macrolepis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
