| Scientific Name: | Cedrus deodara |
| Common Name: | Deodar cedar |
| Family Name: | Pinaceae |
| Origin: | South Asia / India |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | > 30m x > 25m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Horizontal, Upright |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal, Pyramidal - widely |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Needle-like, Whorled, Spiraled, Sessile, Leathery, Parallel venation, Glabrous, Glaucous, Acicular, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Green-yellow, Sep-Oct |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Green, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Branching horizontal, whorled with pendulous branchlets; needles sharp, most 2-5cm long x 0.8-1.5mm wide, mid green to glaucous bluish-green, 15-30 per whorl, typically on upper side of branchlets; pollen cones 4-7cm long, ripen and soon abscise in Sep-Oct; seed cones solitary or in pairs, erect, barrel-shaped, 7-10cm long x 5-6cm wide, green-yellow to bluish when young, maturing reddish-brown; scales 5-6cm wide; seeds 15-17mm long x 5-6mm wide, each with a large, light brown wing. | |