CEDRUS deodara

Deodar cedar, Himalayan cedar

CEDRUS deodara

Deodar cedar, Himalayan cedar

  • Maintenance advice : Formative pruning if necessary, in autumn.
  • Botanical/Horticultural origin : Himalaya : introduced by David Leslie-Melville (GB) 1831
  • Use group : Conifers
  • Height at 10 years : 15 m
  • Width at 10 years : 10 m
  • Growth : Fast
  • Fragrance : No
  • Exposure : Sun - Half shade
  • Evergreen/Deciduous : Evergreen
  • Shape : conical, pyramidal
  • Colour of leaves : Blue green
  • Colour of flowers : Absent
  • Soil type : Garden soil
  • Uses : Free standing specimen
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Large pyramidal form, regular and dense. Graceful reclining form with horizontal flexible main branches but with smaller hanging branches along it, giving a willow form. Moderate growth at first, then faster. Resistant to parasites. Not as rustic as the Cedrus atlantica. Dark grey bark. Dark green, blue tinted foliage, contrasting with its pale green young shoots. Needles are 4 to 5cm long. Erect oval cones are 10cm long and brown with blue tints.