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{{#switch:Plantae Animalia=style="background-color:pink" Plantae=style="background-color:palegreen" Fungi=style="background-color:navajowhite" Taxonomic classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Pinaceae
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{{#switch:Plantae Animalia=style="background-color:pink" Plantae=style="background-color:palegreen" Fungi=style="background-color:navajowhite" Endemism
{{#switch:Plantae Animalia=style="background-color:pink" Plantae=style="background-color:palegreen" Fungi=style="background-color:navajowhite" Common names
English: Lebanon Cedar, Cedar of Lebanon
French: Cèdre du Liban
Arabic: أرز لبنان
{{#switch:Plantae Animalia=style="background-color:pink" Plantae=style="background-color:palegreen" Fungi=style="background-color:navajowhite" {{#switch:Vulnerable|Extinct=†|}}Cedrus libani
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Phylum: Tracheophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Pinaceae
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{{#switch:Plantae Animalia=style="background-color:pink" Plantae=style="background-color:palegreen" Fungi=style="background-color:navajowhite" Endemism
{{#switch:Plantae Animalia=style="background-color:pink" Plantae=style="background-color:palegreen" Fungi=style="background-color:navajowhite" Common names
English: Lebanon Cedar, Cedar of Lebanon
French: Cèdre du Liban
Arabic: أرز لبنان

Cedrus libani is an evergreen conifer growing on calcareous, well-drained soils on high mountains, at altitudes of 1200-1900m above sea level. It is adapted to cold winters, snow, frost, as well as drought.
This tree can reach a height of 40m. It has dark gray to blackish brown scaly bark that features horizontal fissures. Leaves are quadrangular and needle-like (15-35mm x 1mm), arranged in spirals on long shoots, and in rosettes on short shoots. Younger trees tend to have a greenish color and a pyramid-shaped canopy, while old trees are grayish and form a broad canopy with distinct horizontal branches.
Male cones are erect catkins, 4-5cm, pale green to orange-brown. Female cones are barrel-shaped, 7-10cm x 4-7cm, sessile, resinous, pale green to purplish-gray, which turn brown at full maturity. Both male and female cones grow on the same tree (monoecious plant), on the terminal end of short shoots. The seeds are ovoid, thin and winged.

Synonyms

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|No=There are currently no known synonyms for this species. }} Abies cedrus, Cedrus brevifolia, Pinus cedrus

Possible confusion

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|No=There are currently no known species resembling this one closely enough to cause any confusion. }} Abies cilicica

Uses & Toxicity

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Medicinal: {{#switch:No |Yes=Yes |No=No}}{{#if:|, }} {{#ifeq:No|Yes|}}
Other uses: Ornamental, also anciently used as timber (now protected from cutting by law)
Toxicity: Non-poisonous{{#if:|, }}

Phenology

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  • Cones (© Wikimedia Commons)
    Cones (© Wikimedia Commons)
  • Leaves (© Wikimedia Commons)
    Leaves (© Wikimedia Commons)
  • Old tree (© Wikimedia Commons)
    Old tree (© Wikimedia Commons)
  • Cedar of God forest (© Wikimedia Commons)
    Cedar of God forest (© Wikimedia Commons)
  • Cedar of God forest (© Wikimedia Commons)
    Cedar of God forest (© Wikimedia Commons)

References

  1. ↑ Gardner, M. 2013. Cedrus libani. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T46191675A46192926. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T46191675A46192926.en
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