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Big City, Big Trees
1. Eastern Parkway Entrance Area
Atlas Cedar (Cedrus libani ssp. atlantica)
| Native Habitat: | Northern Africa |
Young male cone. Photo: Medi Blum.
Atlas cedars are native to the Atlas Mountains in Morocco and Algeria, where they are shrouded in heavy cloaks of snow for a quarter of the year. These big trees can attain 150 feet in height and live for as many years. The male cones of the Atlas cedar grow on the bottom branches of the tree, the purple-tinted female cones at the top.
Notable Neighbors:
- 1A. Monarch birch (Betula maximowicziana)
- 1B. Sawtooth oak (Quercus acutissima)
- 1C. Atlas cedar (Cedrus libani ssp. atlantica)
- 1D. Carolina silverbell (Halesia carolina)
- 1E. Japanese stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia)