Cedar of Lebanon
Cedrus libani · Pinaceae · 레바논시다
How to spot it
On mature trees the crown becomes flat and wide, and barrel-shaped cones stand upright on horizontally spreading branches.
Look
- Leaves
- Stiff dark green needles grow in clusters of several.
- Flowers
- It makes upright cones instead of flowers.
- Fruit
- Seed cones stand upright, with a flat or slightly concave tip. Seeds fall away from mature cones.
- Bark
- Dark gray bark with fissures.
Where it grows
- Native to
- The region from southern Turkey to Syria and Lebanon.
- Ecology
- Grows slowly when young, and squirrels use the cones.
Sources
- NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
- 국립수목원 국가표준재배식물목록(개정)
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew / Plants of the World Online
- Virginia Tech / Dendrology: cedar of Lebanon
- UNESCO 세계유산센터(Ouadi Qadisha and the Forest of the Cedars of God)
- Bible Gateway, 1 Kings 5 (King James Version)
- Constitute Project, Lebanon's Constitution of 1926 with Amendments through 2004 — Article 5
- The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature(옥스퍼드대) ‘Gilgamesh and Huwawa, version A: translation’