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Deodar Cedar

Cedrus deodara · Pinaceae · 개잎갈나무

How to spot it

Drooping branch tips and long, flexible needles. Needles gather in bundles on short shoots.

Look

Leaves
Sharp-tipped blue-green needles are borne in clusters.
Flowers
It makes separate male and female cones instead of flowers.
Fruit
Upright, ovoid female cones mature in about 2 years; the scales and seeds fall while the cone stays on the tree.
Bark
Young bark is smooth and gray; it darkens and cracks with age.

Where it grows

In Korea
Planted
Native to
From northeastern Afghanistan to western Nepal and northwestern India.
Ecology
Squirrels use the cones, and the crown provides feeding places, shelter and nesting sites for birds and small mammals.

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