Cedrus deodara 'Albospica'
lc: new growth white, giving a white-tipped appearance

'Argentea' ('Silver'?) - click image
Raulston Arboretum. Summer 2003 as 'Silver'.

Cedrus deodara 'Argentea' ('Silver'?)
lc: rich silvery-blue, less dark a blue than 'Bill's Blue' and some others.
ns:  the common name "Silver Deodar Cedar" is applied to this old clone. It is
ns: not clear if the plant sold merely as 'Silver' in the US is traceable to it or not.
ns: the plants seem to match but doubtless various silver seedling or mutations
ns: will occur as these are normal genetic ranges in most conifer species.

'Aurea' - click image
Raulston Arboretum. April 2003.

Cedrus deodara 'Aurea'
ha: pyramidal
lc: golden yellow becoming yellow-green by fall. It seems most appealing as young plants under 30 years or so.
lc: older trees are often less vigorous, giving fewer and paler yellow tips in spring and summer. It is best used in
lc: our opinion near blue and dark green examples of the genus where the contrasts will be sharp for many
lc: decades.

'Aurea Pendula' - click image
JC Raulston Arboretum. Fall 2003. It should have been called 'Aurea Horizontalis' for it only droops a bit. It is gold enough for a couple of
weeks each spring and is rather pale yellowish-green thereafter.  I like 'Golden Horizon' for a spreading drooping cultivar.

edrus deodara 'Aurea Pendula'
ha: broadly pyramidal, secondary limbs drooping
lc: golden yellow new growth becomes yellow-green by fall

Cedrus deodara 'Aurea Wells' = 'Wells Golden'

'Bill's Blue' - click image
Raulston Arboretum. November 2003.

Cedrus deodara 'Bill's Blue' (9/01)
ha: horizontal branches with upright tips
lc: rich blue-green
or: Bob Head of Headlee Nursery before 1998
lsp: Headlee Nur. to JC Raulston Arb. 1998
photo, source: bluespring.com

Cedrus deodara BLUE VELVET = see 'Sander's Blue'

Cedrus deodara 'Bold Dwarf'
ha: lower, semi-dwarf
lc: grey-green
ll: shorter than species typical
or: H. Huizer Nursery, Boskoop, Netherlands from seed before 1983
li: Dendroflora 20: 67 (1983)

Cedrus deodara 'Bracken's Best' ('Bracken's Best Cedar')(9/01)
ha: pyramidal with drooping tips, the most vigorous clone known to the
ha: originator, with "good skirt" of foliage at base.
lc: blue-green, said to remain in good color in summer in southern US
or: Bracken
photo, source: bluespring.com

'Bush's Electra' ('Electra') - click image
Raulston Arboretum. November 2003.

Cedrus deodara 'Bush's Electra' ('Electra')
ha: stiffly upright with horizontal limbs. The side branches run nearly parallel to the trunk and their laterals are much more
ha: horizontal. The effect is very attractive as the photo above shows.
lc: intense powder blue. The color is about as good as 'Bill's Blue' but slightly better in some light.
or: Richard Bush of Canby OR
so: Porterhowse Farms 503-668-5834
li: Porterhowse Farms Catalog 1998: 7

Cedrus deodara 'Clarke' ('Compacta' in part)
ha: pyramidal, compact, dense
id: differs from the similar 'Compacta' in branches not as decurving

'Compacta' - click image
Raulston Arboretum. Summer 2003.

Cedrus deodara 'Compacta'
ht: 2-4m
ha: pyramidal, compact, branches short but drooping and decurving. Not as elegant as full-sized cultivars
ns: some plants such under this name are now considered to be 'Clarke', a distinct clone.

Cedrus deodara 'Contorta' = 'Raywood's Contorted'

Cedrus deodara 'Cream Puff'
ha: erect and globose
gr: dwarf to semi-dwarf
lc: creamy white and less prone to sunscorch
or: Floravista Gardens of Victoria BC Canada

'Crystal Falls' - click image
Raulston Arboretum. November 2003.

'Crystal Falls' - click image
South Carolina Botanical Garden, Clemson University, SC USA. Summer 2003.

Cedrus deodara 'Crystal Falls' (9/01)
ht: 30 ft. tall x 30 ft. wide
ha: pendulous and upright, giving a cascading look
lc: soft blue-green
photo, source: bluespring.com

Cedrus deodara 'Deep Cove'
ha: pyramidal
lc: pure white but maturing to more typical blue green - twotone in spring
or: Floravista Gardens of Victoria BC Canada

Cedrus deodara 'Descancio Dwarf'
ha: dwarf, irregular, semi-decumbent

'Devinely Blue' - click image to enlarge
Gotelli Collection, US National Arboretum. April 2003.

Cedrus deodara 'Devinely Blue' ('Divinely Blue')
ha: compact and conical by one report. The plant shot above at the Gotelli is broadly spreading and quite
ha: like a spreading Taxus for outline.
lc: blue-green. It is bluer than species typical but not nearly as bright at the Gotelli as any C. atlantica.
or: Bill Devine of MD
so: Porterhowse Farms 503-668-5834
li: Porterhowse Farms Catalog 1998: 7

Cedrus deodara 'Droop Tip'
ns: a listed name

Cedrus deodara Patkia Group 'Eisregen'
ha: semi-pendulous, dense foliage
lc: light blue-gray
ch: more cold hardy as in the cultivar group

Cedrus deodara Patkia Group 'Eiswinter'
lc: gray-green
ch: more cold hardy as in the cultivar group

Cedrus deodara 'Emerald Spreader' ('Viridis Prostrata')
ha: low spreading
lc: bright to medium green
or: Harold Wells of Mt. Vernon WA

Cedrus deodara 'Fallout' (4/5)
ha: low shrub, spreading
lc: dark green
so: Conifergardens.com (online catalog 2005)

Cedrus deodara 'Fastigiata'
ha: columnar to fastigiate, branches very erect, not as highly branched
ll: highly diverse in size

'Gemstone' - click image
Raulston Arboretum. November 2003.

Cedrus deodara 'Gemstone'
lc: rich blue-green - not as silvery as 'Bill's Blue'

Cedrus deodara 'Glauca'
lc: blue-green to silvery-blue

Cedrus deodara 'Gold Cone'
ha: dense, narrowly columnar to conical
lc: tinged golden yellow

Cedrus deodara 'Gold Rush'
ht: 3m tall x 1m wide (original plant, 15 years)
ha: upright
lc: golden yellow

Cedrus deodara 'Gold Mound'
ha: broadly pyramidal
lc: bright golden yellow
li: Welch, H.J. 1990. The conifer manual. Kluwer. p. 186

Cedrus deodara 'Gold Strike'
ha: broadly poyramidal
lc: golden yellow
in: Floravista Gardens, Victoria, BC, Canada

'Golden Horizon' - click image
Brookside Gardens. April 2004. A very vigorous and bold conifer for large banks.

Cedrus deodara 'Golden Horizon'
ha: spreading
lc: yellow new growth becoming yellowish-green in summer

Cedrus deodara 'Hibernal'
ch: to -20 deg. F.

Cedrus deodara 'Hiland Gold' (4/5)
ha: spreading shrub
lc: golden-yellow
so: Conifergardens.com (online catalog 2005)

'Hollandia' - click image
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond, Virginia. Summer 2003.

Cedrus deodara 'Hollandia'

Cedrus deodara Patkia Group 'Karl Fuchs'
lc: blue green
ch: to -25 deg. F. - more cold hardy

Cedrus deodara 'Kashmir'
or: Styer Nur. of Dr. J. Franklin Styer of Concordville PA around 1929 as
or: only plant of 200 to survive winter of 1933-34 at -25 F.
in: by Dr. Styer in 1950
ch: proven more hardy in many trials though 'Karl Fuchs' is more hardy yet.
li: Wyman, D. 1969. Plant registrations. Arnoldia 29(1): 1.

Cedrus deodara 'Klondike'
ht: 4.5m tall x 3m wide (original plant, 18 years)
ha: dense, broadly conical
lc: yellow green (lime green) become more gold in winter
so: Iseli Nursery (wholesale) 1-800-777-6202

Cedrus deodara 'Lime Glow'
lc: lime to 'yellowish-grey'
ha: densely dwarf and stems slightly twisted with some pendulous limbs
ls: slightly twisted
prop: will be stiffly weeping if grafted on a standard understock
or: found in garden at Sassafras Australia and propagated by Arnold Teese
or: (father of D. Teese) and Ken Gillanders - both nurseryman
li: Teese, D. 1985. Cedrus deodara 'Limeglow' and other new Cedrus
li: witches-broom derived cultivars. Bull. Amer. Con. Soc. 2(4): 112-113

Cedrus deodara 'Limelight'
ha: pyramidal with semi-pendulous limbs
lc: greenish white when young becoming light green
or: Floravista Gardens of Victoria BC Canada

Cedrus deodara 'Maxima Pendula'
ns: probably requires a vernacular name.

Cedrus deodara 'Miles High'
ha: branches formed along trunk like sequoia
gr: slower than normal
ht: 40'
so: Greer Gardens 1-800-548-0111

'Montrose Veil' - click image

Cedrus deodata 'Montrose Veil'
ha: variable in collections, ranging from a low spreading to semi-upright weeper but usually wider than tall

Cedrus deodara 'Mount Buffalo' (4/5)
lc: green
so: Conifergardens.com (online catalog 2005), as ;Mt. Buffalo'

Cedrus deodara 'Mountain Beauty' ('Mount Beauty')(10/02)
ht: 3 in. tall for many years
ha: dwarf, groundcover, mounded with age
lc: blue-gray

Cedrus deodara 'Mylor'
ha: stiff and arching limbs and forming a dense bush
lc: yellow green but less bright than 'Limeglow'
gr: more vigorous than 'Limeglow'
li: Teese, D. 1985. Cedrus deodara 'Limeglow' and other new Cedrus
li: witches-broom derived cultivars. Bull. Amer. Con. Soc. 2(4): 112-113

Cedrus deodara 'Nana'
ha: dwarf, shrubby, globose to flat-topped, compoact
id: Welch considers this a group of similar clones since this mutation is not uncommon

Cedrus deodara Patkia Group ('Patkia')
ch: more cold hardy
or: Patrkia Province, Afghanistan as seedlings
eval: named clones like 'Eiswinter', 'Eisregen', 'Polarwinter' and 'Karl Fuchs' are better than seedlings

'Pendula' - click image
Gotelli Collection, US National Arboretum. April 2004.

Cedrus deodara 'Pendula'
ha: pendulous, often low and spreading like curtains over the group

Cedrus deodara 'Polarwinter'
ha: thick branches, weeping to drooping tips
lc: green

Cedrus deodara 'Prospect Prostrate' (4/5)
ha: low spreading
lc: creamy-green
so: Conifergardens.com (online catalog 2005)

'Prostrate Beauty' - click image
A lovely indoor plant at the great Conversatory in Columbus Ohio. Summer 2003.

Prostrate Beauty' - click image
Brookside Gardens. April 2004. The Brookside folks are always creative in their grouping of first class cultivars in well-spaced, informal mounds.
This display is only going to get better over the decades.

Cedrus deodara 'Prostrate Beauty'
ha: prostrate, semi-dwarf.

'Pygmy' - click image to enlarge
Gotelli Collection, US National Arboretum. April 2003.

Cedrus deodara 'Pygmy'
ht: 30cm tall x 40cm wide (original plant, 17 years)
ha: true dwarf, small pyramidal, lower limbs slightly trailing.
lc: blue-green, a nice glaucous shade by some reports, rather a bland gray-green at the Gotelli. But given the
lc: number of dark green and very blue dwarf conifers even a weak and washed out color has contrast value.
or: found in California nursery c. 1943

Cedrus deodara 'Raywood's Contorted' ('Contorta')
ha: contorted with angled limbs
gr: 10-15cm per year
or: seedling at Raywood Nursery of Delamere S. Australia
in: to trad eby C. Nitschke
li: Welch, H.J. 1990. The conifer manual. Kluwer Press. p. 187

'Repandens' - click image
Gotelli Collection, USNA. April 2004. Not very repandent eh? This example suggests the synonym with 'Pendula' may be correct.
We also have a photo of 'Pendula' from Gotelli in the space above.

Cedrus deodara 'Repandens'
ha: extremely pendulous to trailing or prostrate - varies with training and grafting
ns: it is quite similar to 'Pendula' and may in fact by the same clone with different training.

Cedrus deodara 'Robusta'
ha: vigorous, branches irregularly spreading, decurving, thicker than normal
ll: 5-6cm
lt: thicker needles
lc: dark blue-green

Cedrus deodara 'Sander's Blue' BLUE VELVET™
ha: erect, branches highly weeping
lc: bright blue
rai: Welch reports that it improves over 'Verticillata Glauca'
so: Iseli Nursery (wholesale) 1-800-777-6202
li: Welch, H.J. 1990. The conifer manual. Kluwer Press. p. 188 (new name)

Cedrus deodara 'Sahara Frost' (2/01)
ha: upright, twice the growth rate of sister seedling 'Sahara Ice'
lc: new growth icy white in spring and summer, becoming gray-green with white tips in winter.
or: Collector's Nursery
in: Collector's Nursery 2001

Cedrus deodara 'Sahara Ice' (2/01)
ht: 24 in. tall in 9 years
ha: dwarf, upright
lc: new growth icy white in spring and summer, becoming gray-green with white tips in winter.
or: Collector's Nursery
in: Collector's Nursery 2001

Cedrus deodara 'Sampson'
ha: dwarf but vigorous enough for production
lc: blue-green

Cedrus deodara 'Scott'
lc: blue green
ha: compact and prostrate
ht: 50cm in 6 years
wd: 1.5m in 6 years
rai: 'Waverly Ridge' is a yellow green companion to it
li: Int. Dendrol. Soc. Year. 1989: 85

Cedrus deodara 'Shalimar'
ch: more cold hardy
or: Arnold Arboretum as cold hardy seedling
li: Arnoldia 42(4: 153-156 (1982)

Cedrus deodara 'Sharp's Golden Weeping'
ha: pendulous
lc: golden yellow

'Silver Mist' - click image
Brookside Gardens, Maryland USA. April 2003. A mist of gold maybe but it was too early for big flushes of new growth. Pretty plants in any color!

Cedrus deodara 'Silver Mist'
ht: 60cm tall x 100cm wide (original plant, 15 years)
ha: dwarf, mounded
lc: tinged white when young. Plants at Brookside were yellowish in winter and spring as the photos confirm.

Cedrus deodara 'Snow Sprite'
ha: dwarf, intermediate between 'Silver Mistr' and 'White Imp' in size
lc: tinged white
or: William Goddard
in: Floravista Gardens, Victoria, BC, Canada

Cedrus deodara 'Verticillata'
ha: branchlets whorled
lc: green

Cedrus deodara 'Verticillata Glauca'
ha: branchlets whorled, more upright, less branched, tiered and horizontal
lc: blue-green

Cedrus deodara 'Victoria'
ha: conical
lc: whitish new growth (not bright) becomes dark green
ll: longer than species typical

Cedrus deodara 'Vink's Golden'
ha: densely pyramidal with drooping limbs
lc: bright yellow
or: Cedar Lodge Nur. of Tasmania
so: Porterhowse Farms 503-668-5834
li: Porterhowse Farms Catalog 1998: 8

Cedrus deodara 'Viridis'
ha: tips less drooping than species typical
lc: brighter green
ll: straighter, less curved

Cedrus deodara 'Viridis Prostrata' = 'Emerald Spreader'

Cedrus deodara 'Warrakilla'
ha: dense mushroom-shaped mound
lc: blue
or: witches broom found at Mylor S. Australia
li: Welch, H.J. 1990. The conifer manual. Kluwer Press. p. 188 (new name)

Cedrus deodara 'Waverly Ridge'
lc: green tinged yellow
ha: compact and prostrate
ht: 50cm in 6 years
wd: 1.5m in 6 years a
li: Int. Dendrol. Soc. Year. 1989: 85

Cedrus deodara 'Well's Golden' ('Wells')('Aurea Wells')
ha: densely pyramidal with multiple stems
lc: bright yellow
or: Wells Nursery of Mt. Vernon WA

Cedrus deodara 'White Imp'
ha: pygmy-sized dwarf
lc: mostly white, especially in the current year's growth
or: William Goddard
in: Floravista Gardens, Victoria, BC, Canada

Cedrus deodara 'Wiesemannii'
ha: pyramidal, compact, slower
lc: blue-green