Atlantic cedar
Cedrus atlantica (Endl.) G.Manetti ex Carrière
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 15 m
- wide
- 11 m
Pinaceae
Also called Atlas cedar, Atlas Cedar
Formerly Abies atlantica, Cedrus africana, Cedrus argentea, Pinus atlantica
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
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- N. & NC. Morocco to N. AlgeriaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 12 m to 18 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 9.1 m to 12 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -23.3 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (11)
- Italian
- cedro dell'Atlante
- Arabic
- الأرز الأطلسي
- Moroccan Arabic
- أرز د لأطلس
- Asturian
- cedru l'atles
- Welsh
- cedrwydden yr Atlas
- French
- Cèdre de l'Atlas
- Dutch
- atlasceder
- Slovenian
- atlaška cedra
- Chinese
- 北非雪松
- Simplified Chinese
- 北非雪松
- Ido
- Atlas-cedro
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 4.0
- 3D model: Cedrus atlantica (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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