Cedrus deodara

Himalayan cedar or deodar cedar is in the pine or Pinaceae family and is native to the western Himalayas (parts of Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, India, Tibet and Nepal), at higher elevations. It can grow up to 50 m tall and 3 m in diameter.

• Crown is conical when young, with drooping leader and branches drooping at the end.
• Evergreen needles are fine, mostly 3–5 cm long, slender, borne singly on long shoots, and in dense clusters of 20–30 on short shoots.
• Species is monoecious. Male cones are 4–8 cm long, on lower portion of the tree, and shed prolific amounts of pollen in late fall (and in November in warmer climates like Vancouver, B.C.) Female cones are barrel-shaped, 7–10 cm long and up to 6 cm broad, upright like fir or Abies cones, ripening to purple-brown, disintegrating when mature (fragmenting cones) to release winged seeds.
• Bark is dark gray, furrowing vertically with age.