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Chapter 12 - Cedrus

Pinales: Cedraceae

from Part III - Living Arborescent Gymnosperm Genetic Presentations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2024

Christopher N. Page
Christopher N. Page
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University of Exeter
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Tall, long-lived forest trees with rough-barked trunks, mostly developing a broad-crowned habit with age, bearing massive boughs and widely spreading flattened branch systems, giving mature trees a particularly stately and majestic habit with age, especially when growing in open park-like landscapes. Distinguished from Picea by the presence of short shoots with clustered leaves, and female cones which are stiffly erect, never pendulous, throughout life to maturity.

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Evolution of the Arborescent Gymnosperms
Pattern, Process and Diversity
 , pp. 272 - 291
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  • Cedrus
  • Christopher N. Page, University of Exeter
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