Cedrus deodara prophouse or simply wild columbine

or simply wild columbine

the foliage serves as a monarch host

the species offers that heritage undiluted

where the plant grows wild on the mountains between the Salween and the Shweli between roughly one and three thousand meters

Cedrus deodara prophouse or simply wild columbineCedrus deodara, the deodar cedar, is a true cedar, not to be confused with the many junipers and other conifers that borrow the name. A splendid, broad spreading large conifer, the deodar carries blue green needles that are the longest of any true cedar, held in soft tufts along gracefully drooping branchlets and a nodding leader that give the tree a distinctive weeping elegance even at a young age. Though widely grown across the southern United