Cedrus atlantica (Endl.) G.Manetti ex Carrière

Trees to 30 m tall; trunk to 1.5 m d.b.h.; crown pyramidal when young; branchlets horizontal or tilted upward distally; branchlets many 2-ranked, opposite or alternate, usually not pendulous, pale yellow-brown, pubescent in 1st year, thereafter dark gray; winter buds conical. Leaves on short branchlets in apparent fascicles of 19-28, dark green, linear, ± quadrangular in cross section, 15-35 cm × ca. 1 mm, stomatal lines 2-5 along both surfaces, apex acuminate. Seed cones tinged purple before fertilization, pale brown at maturity, ovoid-columnar to columnar, ca. 7 × 4 cm. Seed scales flabellate or obtriangular, ca. 3.5 mm wide. Seeds ± triangular, ca. 1.2 cm; wing cuneate, 1.3-1.5 cm.

Upper slopes of the Atlas mountains where there is little or no rain in the growing season but the soil is fed by the melting snow from the peaks above.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.