Calocedrus decurrens

California incense-cedar, mostly just called incense cedar, is a conifer in the cypress or Cupressaceae family and is native to western North America, mostly in United States from central western Oregon through most of California and to the extreme west of Nevada. A beautiful, fast growing, very dense columnar tree, it can reach 60 m tall and 3 m in diameter.

• Foliage is borne on flattened sprays, with deep green leaves that are tiny, aromatic, sets of 2 pairs together closely pressed against the stems, with a sharp-pointed triangular tip.
• Species is monoecious. Male pollen cones are tiny, bright green, on the tips of the branches; female seed cones are oblong yellowish-green cones, up to 2 cm long, clustered at the tips, ripening to reddish-brown and opening like a duck's beak with a large tongue sticking out.
• Bark is fibrous red-orange to cinnamon brown, becoming deeply ridged and furrowed with age.