Seasonal Wild Flowers

Latin name

Cedrus deodara

Family

Pinaceae

Flowering season

September to October

English distribution

It is scattered throughout the country.

See the BSBI distribution map for Deodar

Habitat

It is a neophyte which was introduced into the UK

in the 1830s.

It is grown mainly estates, parks, large gardens

and churchyards.

It sometimes grows in the wild from seed.

Description

Deodar is an evergreen, conifer growing up to 35m.

Male cones are numerous, vertical and up to 8cm.

They turn from green to grey and then yellow.

After producing pollen they turn brown and fall from

the tree.

Female cones are produced on relatively few trees.

Adult cones are barrel-shaped roughly 9cm x 5-6cm.

They are flat-topped and turn from green to brown.

The cones disintegrate on the tree or on the ground

leaving an erect spike.

The needles on short shoots are up to 5cm, the

longest of the cedars found in the UK.

Needles are in whorls and each has a translucent

pointed tip.

The bark is brown, fissured and cracked.

Young trees are conical in shape.

Older trees are more  rounded with slightly drooping

side branches.

Two other Cedars are on this website. Atlas Cedar

and Cedar-of-Lebanon.