Editing Cedrus (section)

{{Short description|Genus of plants (coniferous trees)}}
{{Redirect|Cedar (genus)|other trees with the name|List of plants known as cedar}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Cedar
| oldest_fossil = Albian
| image = View from the Barouk Forest 1.JPG
| image_caption = Lebanon cedar in [[Al Shouf Cedar Nature Reserve]] in [[Barouk]], Lebanon
| taxon = Cedrus
| authority = [[Christoph Jakob Trew|Trew]]
| type_species = ''[[Cedrus elegans]]''
| type_species_authority = [[Ora Willis Knight|Knight.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}

'''''Cedrus''''', with the common English name '''cedar''', is a genus of [[conifer]]ous [[tree]]s in the plant family [[Pinaceae]] (subfamily Abietoideae).  They are [[native plant|native]] to the mountains of the western [[Himalayas]] and the [[Mediterranean region]], occurring at altitudes of {{convert|1500-3200|m|abbr=on}} in the Himalayas and {{convert|1000-2200|m|abbr=on}} in the Mediterranean.<ref name=farjon>Farjon, A. (1990). ''Pinaceae: Drawings and Descriptions of the Genera''. Koeltz Scientific Books. {{ISBN|3-87429-298-3}}.</ref>