Atlantic cedar (Atlantic cedar).
Appearance: An evergreen coniferous tree, approx 40 m, with wide, conical crown, ending with a blunt tip.
Larger branches are inclined, and then spread wide, do not form flat, stacked crown segments.
Dark brown-gray bark, cracked into plaque, with deep furrows.
Length pins 1-3 cm are dark or blue-green in color. Their edges are almost not marked, and the ends are sharpened. They appear in large numbers in bunches (to approx 40) on shoots, and on long shoots arranged in a spiral and mutually distant. Male brown and yellow flowers, length 3-5 cm, cylindrical, narrowed to the front, slightly bent. Female cylindrical cones, during maturation, the size of approx 6 cm, with very wide scales, slightly squeezed at the top. Occurrence: Originally only on the forested slopes of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco and Algeria. It has long been numerous varieties, especially le with blue pins, were planted in parks,
Flowering period: September.
Related species:
Lebanese cedar (The cedar of Lebanon) it is an evergreen coniferous tree, with a height of up to 40 m, whose branches – especially at a later age – they are characteristically stacked on very strong levels, steeply raised limbs, so that they resemble table tops. The trunk is usually very thick, irregularly branched already at a slight height. Dark green heels approx 3 cm are concentrated in clusters on shoots 10-20, and arranged in a spiral on the long shoots. Female barrel cones. It grows wild only in Lebanon, Syria and eastern Turkey. Planted more often in Southern Europe than in Central.
Himalayan cedar (Deodara cedar) it is quite slim, an almost spindle-shaped crown, the long leading shoot of which usually overhangs. The bark is initially smooth, dark green-brown in color, later black and brown and strongly cracked. Pale red shoots and densely hairy, with very soft pins, arranged in a spiral, On older branches, dark green or blue-tinged pins, approx 3 cm, they are collected in bunches on shoots.
Cypriot cedar (Cedar brevifolia) reaches a height of approx 20 m t has very short pins, with a length of approx 1 centimeter. Of all the species, Cypriot cedar has the smallest natural range – its occurrence is limited to the Troodos Mountains in Cyprus. General thoughts: The common feature of cedars is their flowering time: unlike other coniferous trees, they bloom in the fall. Cedar wood has been used since antiquity for building ship houses and for making furniture. Already in I. In the Book of Kings, the Bible mentions the importation of cedar wood on a large scale.