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lawson cypress

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Lawson cypress


Origin:
1855–60; after Lawson and Son, a firm of Edinburgh nurserymen, who cultivated the tree from seeds collected in America in 1854

Port Orford cedar

[awr-ferd]
–noun
1. a tall tree, Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, of coastal Oregon, having flattened, scalelike foliage and wood highly valued as timber.
2. the fragrant wood of this tree.


Origin:
1870–75, Americanism; named after Port Orford, Oregon
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