Grow Your Own Red Cedar

Once classified as a distinct species, Toona australis, our Australian red cedar is now recognised as a local variant of the Asian red cedar (Toona ciliata). In its natural habit, large red cedar trees are usually only found in the coastal areas of New South Wales and Queensland, but the species may be much more tolerant than its rainforest habit implies.

There is a red cedar growing in the Albury Botanical Gardens which is now 104 centimetres in diameter! The largest planted red cedar on the National Register of Big Trees is in the Adelaide Botanical Gardens; Australia’s driest capital city. First recorded as being present in 1859, the tree has