Any chance at a ID?

[GailC]

Seen this on a mountain in North Idaho. I don't believe its native as I've never seen one before. Its also not the typical juniper you see in the landscape.
The foliage was almost weeping and looked really wispy. I wasn't able to photograph the whole tree.

I though it had cones until I got up close, I do believe they are galls.
It doesn't have what I wpuld consider a typical cedar or juniper scent when the foliage is crushed

 

[We're all Mad Here...🎩]

Might have to consult ye old books or internets.

 

[Eckhoffw]

I’m going with ERC. Stringy adult foliage

 

[PA_Penjing]

I've seen some rocky mountain junipers at the nursery with very droopy/weeping foliage. I would guess that before ERC, especially since RMJ is native to that area and ERC is not

 

[PA_Penjing]

also looks like it's pretty heavily infested with cedar apple rust.

 

[rockm]

Don't think that is Eastern Red Cedar. ERC natural range stops two big square states away from Idaho.

 

[Eckhoffw]

Ahah. I didn’t know that. Thanks!

 

[GailC]

also looks like it's pretty heavily infested with cedar apple rust.

Its infested with something. I had put it in a glass of water overnight and the hard balls turned jelly like.

 

[We're all Mad Here...🎩]

I'd toss that sample in the fire. Not good enough for a sample in a jar.

 

[rockm]

Its infested with something. I had put it in a glass of water overnight and the hard balls turned jelly like.

It's cedar apple rust. A fungus that attacks junipers.

 

[GailC]

I've seen some rocky mountain junipers at the nursery with very droopy/weeping foliage. I would guess that before ERC, especially since RMJ is native to that area and ERC is not

I wondered about ERC myself but it just didn't quite look right.
The tree was much thinner and open than pictures of RMJ but it was severely infested and growing under a large pine.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

@GailC - that gall definitely looks like rust, cedar-apple rust or one of the variants that can alternate with pear or quince.

The foliage could be unusually loose due to shade growing, what ever species of juniper is native in Idaho. RMJ?.

I believe possible to be western cedar, Thuja plicata, native to northern half of Idaho. Don't know if Thuja are susceptible to cedar-apple rusts. I don't think they are, but I'm not sure.

A fungicide that lists rust as target diseases would be appropriate, check the label for Mancozeb. But read the label thoroughly yourself, please.

 

[_#1_]

Could it be some kind of Cypress, Cupressus? There is a weeping form.

Or False Cypress, Chamaecyparis?

 

[rockm]

Could it be some kind of Cypress, Cupressus? There is a weeping form.

Or False Cypress, Chamaecyparis?

If it's growing on a mountainside in N. Idaho, false cypress is impossible, unless someone planted it there. False cypress is native to Japan and Asia. Same for most other cypress species, not native to Idaho. Cupressus nootkatensis (Alaska Yellow Cedar) could be an outside candidate as it grows in adjacent Washington state, but the foliage is wrong.

 

[Crazy Diamond]

Looks Juniper for sure, Thuja or Chamaecyparis dont grow like that, Cupressus foliage is also diferent

 

[GailC]

If it's growing on a mountainside in N. Idaho, false cypress is impossible, unless someone planted it there. False cypress is native to Japan and Asia. Same for most other cypress species, not native to Idaho. Cupressus nootkatensis (Alaska Yellow Cedar) could be an outside candidate as it grows in adjacent Washington state, but the foliage is wrong.

Looking at pictures, it looks closer to a false cypress then any junipers I saw.

I've not ever seen any juniper of any kind in the wilds here. Whatever this is, I suspect it its not there of its own accord.
Can trees like this be spread by birds eating the seeds?
Its also possible someone tossed out landscape plants. This wasn't too far out of town on a well maintained road.

 

[Dav4]

I’m thinking Rocky Mountain juniper until proven otherwise

 

[PA_Penjing]

If the weather is nice I may go to natures way tomorrow, I can snap pics of a tree or two that look exactly like this one. assuming they aren't sold

 

[moke]

99% sure it’s Mourning cypress (Cupressus funebris) is indigenous to central and southwestern China. It’s grown as an ornamental in public parks and gardens in temperate regions of the world. In colder climates, it’s planted indoors. There’s a legendary 800-year-old specimen at Black Dragon Pool Mountain Temple near Kunming, China.

 

[moke]

Looks like the dried fruit cones in your pic not rust.