#cedar tree

[hikayaking]

"Oh, the cedar tree! If mankind in his infancy had prayed for the perfect substance for all material and aesthetic needs, an indulgent god could have provided nothing better."

Bill Reid, in the foreword to the book: Cedar, by Hilary Stewart

Cedar

[rebeccathenaturalist]

This was an incredibly beautiful nurse stump I found on Alder Ridge at Oxbow Regional Park in Oregon (it's near the flight path for Portland International Airport, hence the plane sounds near the end.) This is likely an old western red cedar (Thuja plicata) stump, hollowed out by decay and hosting a wide variety of mosses, lichens, fungi and other living beings. It was probably a good four feet in diameter at the base, perhaps a little larger, and while large portions of it have long since returned to the soil and the nutrient cycle, this ancient tree continues to feed the forest.

[thunderstruck9]

Arthur Streeton (Australian, 1867-1943), Cedar Tree, Coombe Bank, 1913. Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 63.5 cm.

[brownie-pics]

朝活中、妙に気になる木に出会いました･･🌲

’24.11.10 東大寺指図堂付近にて

[metasattva]

Autumn 2024_109 4 seasons in the neighborhood, Japan

[llovinghome]

[sitting-on-me-bum]

A cedar tree that is said to be 1000 years old.

Photographer: Akitoshi Nakashima

International Photography Awards™

[molecularmusicality]

warm spring glow. taken april 2025.

[mrkoppa]

23 November 2024 | Peninsula State Park, Door County, Wisconsin

[oddestishottest]

I love these two fabulous trees

04/18/25

[dawsio]

Shout out to the best Twitter post in the entire world

[rebeccathenaturalist]

This was an encounter with a really nice nurse stump that I had earlier this fall. Dead trees are the pantry of the forest; all the nutrients they stored in their wood throughout their lifetime is freed by detritivores and decomposers, and becomes available to plants like the western red cedar in the video.

[alcnfr]

Northern Cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis) always look particular good in sunlit Eastern Red Cedar trees (Juniperus virginiana).

[queerdreamlandrebel]

I love how the sunlight illuminates the snow on the leaning cedars, little winter sunlight magic.

[metasattva]

Autumn 2024_108 4 seasons in the neighborhood, Japan

[oogleboogleoogle]

Mossy Cedar.