Scientific name: ‘Juniperus cedrus’
Common name: Cedro canario
Family: ‘Cupressaceae’
Genus ‘Juniperus’
Description: Montaña del Cedro, Gran Canaria
Description: Plant species considered in danger of extinction in the National Catalogue of Species under Threat and in need of a recovery plan. Endemic to the Canaries and Madeira Isands, currently found in the Canaries only in the highest mountains of Tenerife, La Palma and on the Montaña del Cedro, situated in the eastern part of Gran Canaria. It is found between 500 and 2000 metres above sea level. Its aromatic wood is traditionally used profusely in carpentry thus diminishing the species. Also greatly appreciated ornamentally, it propagates by seeds and the population under greatest threat of disappearing is the population in Gran Canaria.
