In German - thuja, lebensbaum. In French - thuya. In Spanish - tuya.
Scientific definition
Thuja is a coniferous plant of family cypress. Now it has enough greate popularity. There are only 5 species growing in the North America and in East Asia. Thujas form almost pure woods, or grow together with deciduous or other coniferous breeds. All needles are located opposite on flat branches that distinguishes thujas from cypresses which have square branches. It breeds with seeds and shanks. It successfully grows on the rich humidified soils. At young age it demands shading. It takes scraping well out, therefore it is used in green hedges, avenues, in topiary art and in creation of boskets.
Height - a tree with height to 12-15m.
Trunk - a trunk to 1 m in diameter.
Crone - tight-conical or pyramidal, compact. In the wood it arborizes from the bottom of the trunk.
Cortex - light-red or brownish, with the numerous cracks forming narrow long exfoliating plates.
Bines - short, horizontally directed, with the ends bent up. Young bines are yellow-green, later red-brown.
Leaves - squamous, small, 5-7 mm in length, close adjoins to bines, opposite crosswise located, lanceolate forms, dark green in summer, brownish-green in winter. Bottom plates of needles are greenish-yellow.
Fruits - oblong, standing, coriaceous-ligneous, brown, ripen in October-November.
Reproduction – with seeds, shanks, an inoculation, off-shoots.
Cultivation conditions - shade-requiring, unpretentious to soils. It grows better on damp fertile loams with calcium.
Use - in single, group plantings, live cut and not cut fences. It has numerous decorative forms with various colouring of needles, crone forms.
In English - thuja
In German - thuja, lebensbaum
In French - thuya
In Spanish - tuya