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11/12/99

Cedrus deodara--Deodar Cedar


Hardiness Zones: 7 to 9
Height: 50 feet Spread: 35 ft Form: pyramidal
Type: narrow-leaved evergreen
Annual Growth Rate: 12 to 18 inches

Comments: Deodar Cedar is a pyramidal tree for much of its
life but it becomes irregular with age. The plant will
tolerate dry sites after it has become established. The
needles (Vis. 3) are soft and grayish-green. The prominent
cones are also interesting (Vis. 4).

Cultivars:
'Albospica' - The new growth is white becoming pale
yellow.
'Aurea' - Slower growing than the species and the
foliage is yellow.
'Glacier Blue' - A spreading plant with bluish foliage.
'Gold Cone' - A more narrow pyramidal (Vis. 1) form than
other cultivars with yellow foliage (Vis. 2).
'Hollandia' - A mounded plant with greenish-blue foliage.
'Kashmir' - Grayish foliage.
'Klondike' - Yellowish-green summer foliage becomes
yellow in winter.
'Prostrate Beauty' - An Iseli selection that is slow-
growing and spreading.
'Pygmaea' - Small, mound shape plant with blue foliage.
'Sander's Blue' - Light blue new growth become darker
with maturity.
'Snow Sprite' - A mound-like plant with white new
growth becoming pale yellow with age.
'White Imp' - A dwarf with white foliage variegation.

References for Cultivars: Monrovia Nursery Company 1997,
Iseli Nursery 1999, Gee Farms 1999.


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