Cedrus atlantica
ζ* Cedrus atlanticaζ (Endl.) Carrière ζ* ζ, Atlantic cedar, has been collected wild at Riccarton, Christchurch, where a small population was found recently in gravelly soil by railway lines. Only young plants were present and these had the glaucous lvs of cv. 'Glauca'; this cv. is very common throughout N.Z. and was present in a nearby garden. A large, evergreen, broadly pyramidal tree with ± horizontal branches; lvs alternate and single on the puberulent long shoots, in fascicles on the spur-like short shoots, needle-like, glaucous, 1-3 cm long; ♂ strobili terminal, erect, cylindric, on short shoots; ♀ cones terminal and erect, on short shoots, 5-7-(8) × 4-5-(6) cm, urceolate, distintegrating at or soon after mautrity; bract scales very small and included; ovuliferous scales 3-3.5 cm wide, very numerous and tightly imbricate, entire. C. atlantica is often confused with the related C. deodara Loudon, deodar, and C. libani Loudon, Lebanon cedar, the former being abundant in cultivation in N.Z. and the latter sparingly so. However, the mature cones of both are often nearly twice as large as those of Atlantic cedar, the lvs are longer and in the deodar the terminal long shoots are ± drooping. (Algeria, Morocco, 1988).
