Twig-dropping arborvitae
Photo and text Vello Keppart
Translation: Liis
Arborvitae with autumn-coloured twigs
Arborvitae; yellow cedar; white cedar etc. Harilik elupuu Thuja occidentalis
We are used to deciduous or leaf-dropping trees. The twig-dropping arborvitae or Thuja has been brought here from North America. In autumn it has many brown twigs, and often it is thought that this cannot be right: is some disease threatening the tree? Leaves and needles are easier to drop off than scales and on the arborvitae old twigs drop off as a whole from the branch.
The metasequoia or dawn redwood Metasequoia glyptostroboideson is actually a deciduous conifer and all its short twigs fall in autumn.
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