As far as I can tell, Eastern Red Cedar fruit production was about average this year. It’s hard to estimate because most of the fruit is in the upper half of the tree. Only a small percentage of trees have any fruits low enough on the tree for easy viewing. Big cedars can produce quite a load of fruit. This tree could easily produce a crop of fruit with seed enough to cover Blue Jay Barrens. Cedar fruit supports large flocks of birds through the winter and dropped seed produces an army of…

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Learn to use eastern red cedar berries and twigs as native american did. Many people don't know the medicinal benefits of this common native tree.

Eastern red-cedar is one of the few native evergreen trees in Indiana.

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Posts about medicinal uses of eastern red cedar written by Adrian White

If I were asked what I love most about this tree, I probably couldn't give just one attribute, but the first thing that comes to mind is how much I enjoy the pleasant fragrance the tree emits, and how its handsome stature makes a perfect Christmas tree. But then maybe it's because it's so beneficial to songbirds and other wildlife, protecting and feeding so many over winter. Or maybe it's how much history the tree has, or how it provides medicine for many.

Eastern red cedar - and cedars of all kinds - have been used for health in herbalism for thousands of years. Learn more about cedar in herbalism here.

Cedar berries are harvested from a specific variety of juniper tree rather than from cedar trees as the name seems to indicate. This variety of juniper has the Latin name Juniperus virginiana. It is

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