About: Cedrus is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 103 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1848 citations. The topic is also known as: Cedar.
TL;DR: The composition of the leaf essential oils of all ten species of Juniperus in sect.Juniperus (=sect. Oxycedrus) are reported and compared and appear to form a natural group.
TL;DR: Based on molecular dating, extant Pinaceae genera diverged since about 206 Mya, earlier than the break-up of Pangea, and the divergence among the pinoid genera occurred early than the split among the abietoids genera.
TL;DR: The results indicate that Cedrus could have an origin in the high latitude area of Eurasia, and its present distribution might result from vicariance of southerly migrated populations during climatic oscillations in the Tertiary and further fragmentation and dispersal of these populations.