Cedar of Lebanon
லெபனான் தேவதாருലെബനൻ ദേവദാരു
Cedrus libani A.Rich.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 15 m
- wide
- 12 m
Pinaceae
Also called Lebanon Cedar
Formerly Abies cedrus, Cedrus effusa, Cedrus elegans, Cedrus libanensis, and 3 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
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- S. Türkiye to LebanonKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 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 15 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -23.3 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -28.9 °C; Wikipedia -17.8 °C
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Slovenian
- libanonska cedra
- Chinese
- 黎巴嫩雪松
- Hebrew
- ארז הלבנון
- Italian
- cedro del Libano
- Arabic
- أرز لبناني
- Asturian
- cedru'l líbanu
- Welsh
- cedrwydden Libanus
- French
- Cèdre du Liban
- Turkish
- Lübnan sediri
- Ido
- Libano-cedro
- Tamil
- லெபனான் தேவதாரு
- Malayalam
- ലെബനൻ ദേവദാരു, സെഡ്രസ് ലിബാനി
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.5
- 3D model: Cedrus libani (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.