Cryptomeria fortunei seed
LATIN NAME: Cryptomeria fortunei
COMMON NAME: Chinese Cedar
The Chinese cedar is a handsome, upright, tall, evergreen conifer of the warm forests, and its fine, soft, bluish-green, awl-shaped leaves and its small, round, woody cones have made it a treasured and fine tree of the region. It grows as an upright, tall, evergreen conifer, reaching up to forty metres or more, with the upright, tapering trunk bearing the fine, soft, bluish-green, awl-shaped leaves that spread along the branches and, through the warm months, the small, round, woody cones of the few seeds. It is a species of the coniferous tree in the cypress family, and it is native to the warm forests of the southern China, while it is treasured for its fine, soft, bluish-green foliage, and it is known as the Chinese cedar.
In the cypress family it is the soft, bluish-green cedar of the southern forests, a species whose feathery foliage and straight trunk have served both the forest and the garden.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The Chinese cedar appears in the forest-ecology papers of the southern China, and the botanists have mapped its place in the cypress family and the regional flora. The foresters have studied the tall, straight form and the useful, fragrant timber, and the horticulturists have grown the soft, bluish-green foliage as one of the fine ornamental conifers of the warm garden. It is a tree of the elegant, useful kind, and the growers of the conifers keep it in their catalogues.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
In the warm, moist garden, the Chinese cedar is the soft, bluish-green conifer of the big garden. Its woody cones feed the small creatures, and the dense, evergreen crown gives shade and shelter to the birds through the year. The useful, fragrant timber has served the fine building of the region, and the tree grows well in the moist, well-drained ground of the sunny, sheltered spot. Soft, bluish-green and elegant.
Shake the few seeds out of the small, round, woody cones and sow them shallowly over the surface of pots of gritty, free-draining, lime-free soil, keep the pots moist in a bright, sheltered spot and never let them dry out, and the first fine shoots will appear in time.