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Community gifts Cedar
$6
Sponsor one or more Cedar trees and help fight deforestion in the Amazon. Each tree plays a vital role in the biodiversity of the rainforest. When you protect a tree you receive a special certificate via email or through the post. View it's location in your Cool Earth account. Help fight climate change and keep this tree standing.
- Local name
- Cedro
- Latin name
- Cedrela odorata
- Height
- 20-30m
- Girth
- 50-100cm
- CO2 stored (tonnes)
- 14
- Leaves
- 20-35cm long, generally found at the end of the branches.
- Flower
- Greenish-cream in bud, white petals when open.
- Fruit
- Chestnut-brown colour. When open they release winged seeds.
- Location
- Generally found below 1600m altitude, in areas of constant rainfall.
The bark from the Cedar tree is used In herbal medicine to treat malaria, fever and rheumatism. The leaves, twigs and bark of the Cedar also give off a garlic-like odour from the cut surface. Like the Mahogany tree it’s used to make furniture. It’s also on the IUCN red list of threatened species.
