the Djurdjura Mountains in Kabylie and Aures Mountains. However, it is expected that it currently inhabits fewer than 15,000 hectares owing to extensive fires and human use. Cultivation and uses Landscape C. atlantica is common in cultivation as an ornamental tree in temperate climates. In garden settings, often the glaucous forms are planted as ornamental trees, distinguished as the Glauca group, a cultivar group. Also, fastigiate, pendulous, and golden-leaf forms are in cultivation. The Atlas cedar is useful in cultivation because it is more tolerant of dry and hot conditions than most conifers. Many of the cultivated trees have glaucous (bluish) foliage, more downy shoots, and can have more leaves in each whorl; young trees in cultivation often have more ascending branches than many cultivated C. atlantica specimens. In the UK the following cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit (confirmed 2017): ’Aurea' (golden Atlas cedar) ’Glauca' (Glauca Group) ’Glauca Pendula' (Glauca Group) An Atlas cedar is planted at the White House South Lawn in Washington, DC. President Carter ordered a tree house built within the cedar for his daughter Amy. The wooden structure was designed by the President himself, and is self-supporting so as not to cause damage to the tree. Forestry Cedar plantations, mainly with C. atlantica, have been established in southern France for timber production. References External links uconn.edu: Cedrus atlantica profile and gallery Gymnosperm Database - Cedrus atlantica (Atlas cedar) description PFAF Plant Database: Cedrus atlantica Atlas deodar cedar Cedrus atlantica - genetic conservation units European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN) atlantica Trees of Algeria Trees of Morocco Flora of North Africa ~ Endangered flora of Africa Garden plants of Africa Plants used in bonsai Ornamental trees Drought-tolerant trees Taxa named by Élie-Abel Carrière