{"id":"id-005","license":"CC-BY-4.0","data":{"title":"Arborvitae or falsecypress: read the cone","file":"/diagrams/id-005-arborvitae-or-falsecypress.svg","caption":"FA Exhibit ID-005. Arborvitae or falsecypress: read the cone.","alt":"Equal-weight public-domain botanical specimens compare northern white-cedar or eastern arborvitae with Atlantic white-cedar or falsecypress. Both have scalelike foliage; oblong versus spherical mature cones separate these two named species.","kind":"diagram","rights":"cc-by-4.0","depicts":"Scalelike foliage overlaps in Thuja occidentalis and Chamaecyparis thyoides","identifiableAddress":false,"exifGpsStripped":true,"derivation":"Morphology from USFS FEIS THUOCC and CHATHY with USFS Silvics of North America. Specimens after Britton & Brown 1913, vol. 1, p. 65, public domain.","technicalReviewer":"Grayson Graham","lastVerified":"2026-08-25T00:00:00.000Z","sourceUrl":"https://research.fs.usda.gov/feis/species-reviews/thuocc"}}