Description
Cedar (scientific name: Cedrus deodara (Roxb.) G. Don) is a plant of the genus Cedar in the Pinaceae family. An evergreen tree with a spire-shaped crown, with large branches flat and small branches slightly drooping. The leaves are needle-shaped, 8-60 cm long, hard, gray-green or silver-gray, scattered on long branches and clustered on short branches. Flowering from October to November. The cones mature the following year, oval-shaped and russet when ripe. Produced in western Asia, western Himalayas and Africa, along the Mediterranean coast, China has only one type of Himalayan cedar, distributed in southern Tibet, India and Afghanistan. Distributed from Afghanistan to India, 1300-3300 meters above sea level, cultivated in many places in China.
