Red Cedar
Cedrela odorata L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 30 m
- wide
- 30 m
Meliaceae
Also called Spanish cedar, Cigar-box Wood, Spanish Cedar
Formerly Cedrela brachystachya, Cedrela caldasana, Cedrela cedro, Cedrela cubensis, and 22 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Mexico to Trop. AmericaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 30 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 10–30 m; Plants For A Future 30–30 m
- Spread
- 30 mRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from Plants For A Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (5)
- Chinese
- 洋椿, 墨西哥香椿
- Simplified Chinese
- 洋椿
- Arabic
- السِّدرال, الشَّربين العطر, شربين أمريكا
- Spanish
- Cedro Rojo
- French
- Acajou Rouge, Acajou-bois, Cedrat
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- 3D model: Cedrela odorata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.