Cedar ident

[Steve Bullman]

Form doesn’t look right for a Lebanese but the cones dont seem right for an atlas. Opinions please?

 

 

[AJStrees]

Looks like Cedrus atlantica 'glauca' to me. There are 3 of them on the estate I work on. Cones looks the same. 

 

There were a few hundred saplings under one of them this year. Growing a load for later. Will have some to pass on or sell in about 5 years. 

[Steve Bullman]

Atlas was my first thought but it doesn’t sit quite right for me

[Rough Hewn]

W/E blue cedar?

[Treeation]

Looks like atlas by form and ascending tips and blueish foliage

 

[Treeation]

Looks like a good bottle but on the base...much decay picked up on picus? any fruiting bodies identified?

[Steve Bullman]

No fruiting bodies and no decay either despite a massive wound 

 

[Dan Maynard]

I tried to read up about this as I worked on a few cedars over the winter. As far as I got to, the old atlas ascends is only _usually_ true but cone form is a reliable indicator.

One of the trees we did the customer swore there were no cones but once we took it down they were there on the branches.

[Dan Maynard]

I also have some friends who live next door to a house called The Cedars, except from their back garden you can see the cedar is dead as a doornail. Apparently they were advised it would be safe for 20 years like that so in no rush to take it down, naturally decay resistant.

I was thinking it would be a nice log to mill though...

[Andrew McEwan]

Did you drill it as well Steve?