Central Park South - A Photo Tour of Common Park Trees

This is one tree in a grove of Lebanon Cedars at the entrance of Pilgram Hill. Pilgram Hill is a sloped knoll leading back to the Conservatory Water and home to a bronze statue of The Pilgrim. This hill is named after the symbolic figure who commemorates the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock.

The Cedar-of-Lebanon is a biblical tree that has fascinated tree lovers for centuries. It is a beautiful conifer and can live a thousand years in its native Turkey. Scholars believe that the cedar was the great tree of Solomon's temple.

The Lebanon Cedar has a sharp, four-sided needle, more or less an inch long and in spur shoots of 30 to 40 needles per spur. Each of the four sides of the needle has tiny dotted white lines of stomata visible under magnification.