#cedrus libani

This that looks like the Cedar of Lebanon (Cedrus libani) watching the sunset quietly in Regent's Park.

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Hanging out on a Lebanese cedar tree...

Cedar of Lebanon

Taken in Barouq and this a Cedrus Libani.

Belgium

The Grange 10 Apr 2008_92 por Adrian Pink Via Flickr: Another Cedar of Lebanon tree just outside of the grounds of The Grange at Northington. This one has a full set of branches. The most striking characters of the Lebanon Cedar are the numerous large and wide-spreading horizontal branches and the broad and flattened summit of the full-grown tree. When young, one or two leading branches rise above the rest; but the mature form is known to nurserymen as "clump-headed." These points, together with the fact that the Cedar grows best in a deep soil, where its roots have access to water. The Candover Stream flows close by out of the picture to the left. The rich brown bark of the gradually tapering stem becomes deeply scored with age, and contrasts well with the level layers of dark foliage. Though the tree seldom exceeds eighty feet in height, its massive branches often spread from thirty to fifty feet on all sides, the lower ones resting upon the ground, though not rooting in it, thus forming a broad-based pyramid densely clothed with leaves. The horizontal lines of its upper boughs give it, in common with the Stone Pine, an architectural character harmonizing with the columns and straight copings of classical buildings. This is probably the reason why these trees were chosen to stand close The Grange with it's classical archetecture. The Cedar grows rapidly, making annual rings from an eighth to half an inch across; but its wood is spongy, very apt to shrink and warp, and with short durability. It is of a reddish color and less resinous than that of the Larch. In its mountain home, however, the Cedar grows more slowly and forms a better wood, so that there seems no sufficient reason for doubting that the wood used for Solomon's Temple and palace was that of this tree. The Romans believed in the preservative character of the resin which exudes from wounds in the Cedar, and which they called "Cedria." A sky library "golden hour" sky was blended to a featureless overcast sky. www.2020site.org/trees/lebanon.html