Atlas’s Cedar at Ooty
A large Cedar tree at Ooty is from the North African Atlas Mountains, named for the mythological Greek Titan bearing the weight of the world
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Botany:
- Common name: Atlas Cedar: An attractive true cedar tree from the Atlas mountains of Northern Africa, sometimes growing with icy-blue foliage
- Botanical species: Cedrus atlantica
- Botanical family : Pinaceae [Pine]
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Geography:
- Latitude: 11.418032 ° north of the Equator
- Longitude: 76.711387 ° east of the Prime Meridian
- Altitude: 2235 metres above sea level
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Journey:
- A West Coast Jungle Triangle
- Path : From Bangalore to the Western Ghats at Bandipur and Ooty, and Agumbe Rainforest, and then down the coast from Udupi to Calicut and back to Bangalore via Nilambur
- Date photographed: 2.11.09

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For the landmarked tree named Atlas’s Cedar at Ooty , the database reference code is: k009.
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