Please help: What type of tree is this?

We live in Louisiana and we have these cedar trees but we don't know what type of cedar tree they are. So our question is what type of cedar tree is this??? This is just a branch we cut off of one they are very tall and big.
  8 answers
  • Janet Pizaro Janet Pizaro on Sep 28, 2015
    Because you are only showing the bark of the tree that would be very difficult to determine. Do you have any branches left or only the bark?
  • R.V.R. Farris R.V.R. Farris on Sep 28, 2015
    How about a picture of the tree?
  • Trent-Tonya Sharp Trent-Tonya Sharp on Sep 28, 2015
    I can repost a picture of the actual tree tomorrow sorry this is all i had here at our home at this time
  • Teresa Speight Teresa Speight on Sep 28, 2015
    I am thinking that it is perhaps a Juniperus Virginiana, also known in your part of the ciontry as a Southern Red Cedar or an Eastern Red Cedar. To be sure if you can take a ohoto and a piece of the tree to your Agricultural Extension Agent, he or she can surely identify the cultivar and the species. The Southern Red Cedar is quite common in your area.
  • Trent-Tonya Sharp Trent-Tonya Sharp on Sep 28, 2015
    Thanks Teresa Speight I didn't know that about the Agricultural Extension Thank you and I will still post a pic of the trees tomorrow tho so everyone that is interested can see
  • Christine King Christine King on Sep 29, 2015
    yes I agree with Teresa it looks like cedar
  • Bonny McDaniel Bonny McDaniel on Sep 29, 2015
    If you Google 'identifying cedar trees' there are many articles. Most use the needles or the tree shape to identify but where they grow is also a hint (like on dry ground or in swampy places).
  • Sharon Noorda Sharon Noorda on Sep 29, 2015
    DEAD!!!