Cedar

Cedar may refer to:

• Cedar wood, wood comes from several different trees that grow in different parts of the world, and may have different uses.

Trees and plants

Pinaceae family

• Cedrus or cedar, a genus of coniferous trees in the plant family Pinaceae
  • Lebanon Cedar, Cedrus libani, a cedar native to Lebanon, western Syria and south central Turkey
  • Atlas Cedar, Cedrus atlantica, a cedar native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria (Tell Atlas) and Morocco
  • Deodar Cedar, Cedrus deodara, a cedar native to the western Himalayas
  • Cyprus Cedar, Cedrus brevifolia, mostly classified as being distinct to the Cedar of Lebanon, found in the island's Cedar Valley in the Troodos Mountains

Cupressaceae family

Ashe Juniper (popularly called Mountain Cedar) in 'Mist lifting off cedars' by DJ Schulte

• Atlantic White Cedar or Chamaecyparis thyoides
• Bermuda cedar or Juniperus bermudiana, a species of juniper endemic to Bermuda
• Chilean cedar or Austrocedrus chilensis
• Clanwilliam Cedar or Widdringtonia cedarbergensis, a species of cypress endemic to the Cederberg mountains of South Africa
• Eastern Red Cedar or Juniperus virginiana, a species of juniper native to eastern North America
• Eastern White Cedar or Northern White Cedar or Thuja occidentalis
• Incense Cedar or Calocedrus
• Japanese Cedar or Cryptomeria (Sugi)
• Mexican White Cedar or Cupressus lusitanica, a species of cypress native to Mexico and Central America
• Mountain Cedar or Juniperus ashei, an evergreen shrub native to northeastern Mexico and the south-central United States
• New Zealand Cedar or Libocedrus bidwillii
• Port Orford Cedar or Chamaecyparis lawsoniana
• Prickly Cedar or Juniperus oxycedrus, a species of juniper, native across the Mediterranean region
• Western Red Cedar or Thuja plicata, a cypress of the Pacific northwest
• Yellow Cedar or Alaska Yellow Cedar or Callitropsis nootkatensis

Meliaceae family

• Spanish Cedar, Cedrela odorata
• Cigar-box Cedar Cedrela
• Australian Red Cedar, Toona ciliata (synonym: T. australis)
• Ceylon Cedar or Melia azedarach, a species of deciduous tree native to India, southern China and Australia

Other families

• Bay Cedar, Suriana (Surianaceae)
• Running Cedar or Ground Cedar, various species of clubmosses (Lycopodiopsida) in the genus Diphasiastrum
• Saltcedar, Tamarix (Caryophyllaceae)
• Stinking Cedar, Torreya taxifolia (Cephalotaxaceae)

People

• Cedar Walton (born 1934) American jazz pianist

Places

Walter Yarwood's abstract expressionist sculpture Cedars in Toronto Canada.

Canada

• Cedar, British Columbia

United States

• Cedar, Indiana
• Cedar, Iowa
• Cedar, Kansas
• Cedar, Michigan
• Cedar, Minnesota, a community within the city of Oak Grove in Anoka County, Minnesota, United States. Cedar is found on Cedar Drive, on the south side of Viking Boulevard
• Cedar City, Utah
• Cedar, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Cedar County, Iowa, a county located in the U.S. state of Iowa
• Cedar County, Missouri, a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of 2000, the population was 13,733. Its county seat is Stockton
• Cedar County, Nebraska, a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of 2000, the population was 9,615. Its county seat is Hartington
• Cedar Township (disambiguation)

Other

• Cedar Fair Entertainment Company, an amusement park company with 18 locations
• Cedar Point, an amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio
• Cedar Girls' Secondary School, in Singapore
• Cedar Revolution, the 2005 revolution in Lebanon
• Cedar River (disambiguation)
• COA Solutions Ltd, formerly known as the CEDAR Group, a software manufacturer that created accounting software
• SS Cedar, a Panamanian coaster in service 1955–58
• Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition, a research laboratory at SUNY Buffalo
• Cedar, an interpreted programming system developed at Xerox PARC for the Mesa programming language

See also

• Red Cedar (disambiguation)
• White Cedar (disambiguation)