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Chamaecyparis thyoides

Index Chamaecyparis thyoides

Chamaecyparis thyoides (Atlantic white cedar, Atlantic white cypress, southern white cedar, whitecedar, or false-cypress), a species of Cupressaceae, is native to the Atlantic coast of North America and is found from southern Maine to Georgia and along the Gulf of Mexico coast from Florida to Mississippi. [1]

66 relations: Acer rubrum, Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, Apalachicola National Forest, Appalachian Mountains, Atlantic Ocean, Bark (botany), Boat building, Camouflage, Canopy (biology), Cape Cod National Seashore, Carbon sink, Carl Linnaeus, Chamaecyparis, Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, Christmas tree, Coast, Conifer cone, Croatan National Forest, Cultivar, Cupressaceae, Decussation, Duck decoy (model), East Coast of the United States, Evergreen, Fire regime, Flora, Florida, Francis Marion National Forest, Georgia (U.S. state), Germination, Gland (botany), Glaucous, Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf of Mexico, Horticulture, Hummock, Leaf, Local extinction, Lumber, Maine, Mississippi, Mobile County, Alabama, New Jersey, New York (state), North America, North Carolina, Nyssa sylvatica, Ocala National Forest, Old-growth forest, ..., Peat, Pennsylvania, Pinophyta, Plant reproductive morphology, Rare species, Seedling, Sphagnum, Sphere, Subspecies, Tree, Trunk (botany), Variety (botany), West Coast of the United States, Wetland, Wetland indicator status, Wood. Expand index (16 more) »

Acer rubrum

Acer rubrum, the red maple, also known as swamp, water or soft maple, is one of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern and central North America.

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Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge

The Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge located in eastern North Carolina along the Atlantic Coast.

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Apalachicola National Forest

The Apalachicola National Forest is the largest U.S. National Forest in the state of Florida.

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Appalachian Mountains

The Appalachian Mountains (les Appalaches), often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains in eastern North America.

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Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.

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Bark (botany)

Bark is the outermost layers of stems and roots of woody plants.

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Boat building

Boat building, one of the oldest branches of engineering, is concerned with constructing the hulls of boats and, for sailboats, the masts, spars and rigging.

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Camouflage

Camouflage is the use of any combination of materials, coloration, or illumination for concealment, either by making animals or objects hard to see (crypsis), or by disguising them as something else (mimesis).

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Canopy (biology)

In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant community or crop, formed by the collection of individual plant crowns.

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Cape Cod National Seashore

The Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS), created on August 7, 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, encompasses on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts.

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Carbon sink

A carbon sink is a natural or artificial reservoir that accumulates and stores some carbon-containing chemical compound for an indefinite period.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.

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Chamaecyparis

Chamaecyparis, common names cypress or false cypress (to distinguish it from related cypresses), is a genus of conifers in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to eastern Asia (Japan and Taiwan) and to the western and eastern margins of the United States.

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Chamaecyparis lawsoniana

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, known as Port Orford cedar or Lawson cypress, is a species of conifer in the genus Chamaecyparis, family Cupressaceae.

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Christmas tree

A Christmas tree is a decorated tree, usually an evergreen conifer such as spruce, pine, or fir or an artificial tree of similar appearance, associated with the celebration of Christmas.

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Coast

A coastline or a seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean, or a line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.

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Conifer cone

A cone (in formal botanical usage: strobilus, plural strobili) is an organ on plants in the division Pinophyta (conifers) that contains the reproductive structures.

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Croatan National Forest

The Croatan National Forest, from the North Carolina Collection's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Cultivar

The term cultivarCultivar has two denominations as explained in Formal definition.

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Cupressaceae

Cupressaceae is a conifer family, the cypress family, with worldwide distribution.

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Decussation

Decussation is used in biological contexts to describe a crossing (Latin: the roman numeral for ten, deca, is an uppercase 'X').

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Duck decoy (model)

A duck decoy is a man-made object resembling a real duck.

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East Coast of the United States

The East Coast of the United States is the coastline along which the Eastern United States meets the North Atlantic Ocean.

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Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen is a plant that has leaves throughout the year, always green.

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Fire regime

A fire regime is the pattern, frequency, and intensity of the bushfires and wildfires that prevail in an area over long periods of time.

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Flora

Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life.

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Florida

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is the southernmost contiguous state in the United States.

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Francis Marion National Forest

The Francis Marion National Forest is located north of Charleston, South Carolina.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a state in the Southeastern United States.

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Germination

Germination is the process by which an organism grows from a seed or similar structure.

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Gland (botany)

In plants, a gland is defined functionally as a plant structure which secretes one or more products.

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Glaucous

Glaucous (from the Latin glaucus, meaning "bluish-grey or green", from the Greek glaukós) is used to describe the pale grey or bluish-green appearance of the surfaces of some plants, as well as in the names of birds, such as the glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus), glaucous-winged gull (Larus glaucescens), glaucous macaw (Anodorhynchus glaucus), and glaucous tanager (Thraupis glaucocolpa).

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Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was created in 1974 to help protect and preserve a portion of the Great Dismal Swamp, a marshy region on the Coastal Plain of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina in the United States.

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Gulf Coast of the United States

The Gulf Coast of the United States is the coastline along which the Southern United States meets the Gulf of Mexico.

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Gulf of Mexico

The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent.

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Horticulture

Horticulture is the science and art of growing plants (fruits, vegetables, flowers, and any other cultivar).

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Hummock

A hummock is a small knoll or mound above ground.

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Leaf

A leaf is an organ of a vascular plant and is the principal lateral appendage of the stem.

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Local extinction

Local extinction or extirpation is the condition of a species (or other taxon) that ceases to exist in the chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.

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Lumber

Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.

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Maine

Maine is a U.S. state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.

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Mobile County, Alabama

Mobile County is the second most-populous county in the U.S. state of Alabama.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the Northeastern United States.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Nyssa sylvatica

Nyssa sylvatica, commonly known as Tupelo, Black gum, sour gum, is a medium-sized deciduous tree native to eastern North America from the coastal Northeast USA and southern Ontario south to central Florida and eastern Texas, as well as Mexico.

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Ocala National Forest

The Ocala National Forest ls the second largest nationally protected forest in the U.S. State of Florida.

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Old-growth forest

An old-growth forest — also termed primary forest, virgin forest, primeval forest, or late seral forest— is a forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance and thereby exhibits unique ecological features and might be classified as a climax community.

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Peat

Peat, also called turf, is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation or organic matter that is unique to natural areas called peatlands, bogs, mires, moors, or muskegs.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania German: Pennsylvaani or Pennsilfaani), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.

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Pinophyta

The Pinophyta, also known as Coniferophyta or Coniferae, or commonly as conifers, are a division of vascular land plants containing a single extant class, Pinopsida.

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Plant reproductive morphology

Plant reproductive morphology is the study of the physical form and structure (the morphology) of those parts of plants directly or indirectly concerned with sexual reproduction.

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Rare species

A rare species is a group of organisms that are very uncommon, scarce, or infrequently encountered.

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Seedling

A seedling is a young plant sporophyte developing out of a plant embryo from a seed.

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Sphagnum

Sphagnum is a genus of approximately 380 accepted species of mosses, commonly known as peat moss.

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Sphere

A sphere (from Greek σφαῖρα — sphaira, "globe, ball") is a perfectly round geometrical object in three-dimensional space that is the surface of a completely round ball (viz., analogous to the circular objects in two dimensions, where a "circle" circumscribes its "disk").

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Subspecies

In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.

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Tree

In botany, a tree is a perennial plant with an elongated stem, or trunk, supporting branches and leaves in most species.

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Trunk (botany)

In botany, the trunk (or bole) is the stem and main wooden axis of a tree, which is an important feature in tree identification, and which often differs markedly from the bottom of the trunk to the top, depending on the species.

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Variety (botany)

In botanical nomenclature, variety (abbreviated var.; in varietas) is a taxonomic rank below that of species and subspecies but above that of form.

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West Coast of the United States

The West Coast or Pacific Coast is the coastline along which the contiguous Western United States meets the North Pacific Ocean.

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Wetland

A wetland is a land area that is saturated with water, either permanently or seasonally, such that it takes on the characteristics of a distinct ecosystem.

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Wetland indicator status

Wetland indicator status denotes the probability of individual species of vascular plants occurring in freshwater, brackish and saltwater wetlands in the United States.

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Wood

Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants.

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Atlantic White Cedar, Atlantic White Cypress, Atlantic Whitecedar, Atlantic white cedar, Atlantic white cypress, Atlantic whitecedar, Chamaecyparis thyoides henryae, Coast white cedar, Southern white cedar, Swamp cedar, Whitecedar falsecypress.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamaecyparis_thyoides

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