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Cedars Chamaecyparis

Most rated Chamaecyparis records are keep-away — 3 of 5 records, including the genus rated as a group. These counts describe the cited records — 5 records carrying 25 evidence rows from 14 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.

Rated as a group: Cedar/Cypress Chamaecyparis sp. Keep away Limited evidence 2 sources rate the genus as a whole. Species evidence never rolls upward into a genus verdict, and genus claims never override a species record. ›

Keep away

2 species

Documented conflict

2 species

honest ties — treat conservatively near structures

About cedars

Corpus context. Chamaecyparis is the directory's #147 largest of 550 genus groups: 5 records carrying 25 evidence rows from 14 cited sources, recorded as tree, shrub , hardy across USDA zones 5–5. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.

More about Chamaecyparis: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.

Where rated cedars grow

Tagged as growing in 22 states.

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. — **FA Exhibit ID-005.** Arborvitae or falsecypress: read the cone. Morphology from USFS FEIS THUOCC and CHATHY with USFS Silvics of North America. Specimens after Britton & Brown 1913, vol. 1, p. 65, public domain. Identification only — no flammability claim. Confirm uncertain material with a regional key or a botanist. CC BY 4.0.

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