The Deodar Cedar grows in acidic, loamy, moist, sandy, well
drained, clay soils. The Deodar Cedar tree makes an excellent
specimen tree for landscapes because of its pleasing shape and
attractive silver-green coloring. The tree also makes a fast
growing and soft wind screen and has been successfully used as a
street tree with the lower branches pruned for pedestrian
traffic. An excellent evergreen with graceful pendulous
branches. Pyramidal form when young, wide-spreading and flat-
topped in old age, often reaching 70' in height. (zones 7-9) The
Deodar Cedar provides nesting sites, cover and food for mammals
and birds such as the woodpecker. The Deodar Cedar tree can
become an immense tree in its native Himalayan habitat. There,
at approximately 4000 feet, it has been known to reach 250 feet
in height. Commonly, it is smaller and has been called "the most
graceful Cedar" by Michael Dirr, noted tree expert and author.
It is no wonder that its name, Deodar, derives from Sanskrit
that translates to "timber of the