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Thuja occidentalis

species of plant
Taxon taxon Q147468
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Summary

Thuja occidentalis is a taxon[1]. It ranks in the top 0.5% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,881 views/month, #973 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: species[3]
  • IUCN conservation status: Least Concern[4]
  • Parent taxon: Thuja[5]
  • Taxon name: Thuja occidentalis[6]
  • Has use: afforestation[7]
  • Commons category: Thuja occidentalis[8]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Thuja occidentalis[9]
  • Commons gallery: Thuja occidentalis[10]
  • Described by source: Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 7[11]
  • GRIN URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=36584[12]
  • This taxon is source of: white cedar[13]
  • Short name: T. occidentalis[14]
  • Taxon common name: Northern Whitecedar[15], Eastern Arborvitae[16], Thuya occidental[17], Abendländischer Lebensbaum[18], Okcidenta tujo[19], arborvitae[20], Harilik elupuu[21], Kanadantuija[22], Tuja[23], Nyugati tuja[24], tuia occidentale[25], Vakarinė tuja[26], Żywotnik zachodni[27], Туя западная[28]
  • NatureServe conservation status: secure[29]
  • Longest observed lifespan: 1653 years[30]

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Identifiers

Thuja occidentalis's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 54037[31]. Thuja occidentalis's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 3317[32]. Thuja occidentalis's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 1034927[33]. Thuja occidentalis's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2684178[34]. Thuja occidentalis's ITIS TSN is recorded as 505490[35].

Why It Matters

Thuja occidentalis has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] It is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

Related Entities

People's Republic of China

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Species Plantarum. 1st Edition, Volume 2. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022.2. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, 13. Band: Gymnospermae. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Species Plantarum. 1st Edition, Volume 2. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . A Scientific Dataset of useful plants of China. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [32] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [35] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [33] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [34] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . iNaturalist. wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [30] ↑ . rmtrr.org. Retrieved . rmtrr.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7w ago · Debessis · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Interlingual index id → i98559
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 11664677-n
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  2. 17w ago · ACorrêa (WMB) · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Reflora id → FB609915, FB612331, FB612363
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  3. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon range → People's Republic of China, Fujian
    Taxon rank → species
    Maintained by wikiproject → WikiProject Invasion Biology
    Iucn conservation status → Least Concern
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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