Oriental Arborvitae

Thank you Seema, Jellis, and Travis for the interesting conversation! It certainly looks like what Travis has suggested. That's a wonderful website! I found this growing in a garden, not in the wild. I was curious as to what species has the berries in that kind of a shape. Thanks!

Hi Jellis, The link I provided is really a good place for information on woody species. If you go to the left hand side of that web page and scroll down to the picture beneath 'Fruit', there is a really good photo of the berries.

Your right, I was only looking at the link you have which doesn't show the berries as in the photo. I expanded the search and now I see them. Thank you for the correction. I've seen these around here in California and in Washington but always assumed they were junipers.

Hi Jellis, Cypress seed cones are globular and look much different. Juniperus communis, unlike all junipers native to the U.S., has only needle leaves, arranged in whorls of 3. Platycladus and Thuja have alternating pairs of flat and folded scale leaves. Platycladus orientalis is commonly planted because of its cylindrical compact form and is distinguished from other Platycladus and Thuja species by having wingless seeds. J, was this in landscaping or the 'wild'? Travis

Travis I believe it's more like juniper but I also believe some cypress has them too.

perhaps, Its called Thuja orientalis too