Foliage:
Silver (Glaucous silvery blue evergreen foliage in the spring that becomes more blue-green in the summer)
Fruit:
Blue (Dioecious; attractive blue berries (cones) on female plants)
Soil:
Widely adapted to soils, except those that are wet
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Leaves mostly scale-like, 4-ranked, closely pressed and overlapping, 0.06" long, and free at apex. Awl-like leaves (0.25") are few and on the inside of the plant, glaucous above, and green below, usually in pairs found mostly on older trees. Branchlets are very narrow (less than 1 mm thick). Bruised foliage smells of cedar. Gray brown to red brown bark exfoliates in long strips.
