CEDAR

ıt grows naturally in East, West and Mid Taurus Mountains, and it presents a small and limited expansion to Erbaa and Niksar areas in the North. The largest natural forests of Taurus cedar, one of the four cedar types, in the world is in Turkey. Cedar forests in Turkey covers an area of 109,440 ha. Their height can reach up to 40m. The crown part, once resembling a pyramid in youth, changes by time and becomes low and flattened. Needle leaves are short, sharp and pricking, and several of them are located on a small shoot branch together in bundles. Cones resembling an egg or a barrel disintegrates when it is ripe, just like firs, and the axis remain on the shoot.