A graceful, large evergreen conifer from the western Himalayas, prized as a specimen for its broadly pyramidal form, gently nodding leader, and sweeping branches whose tips droop in soft, weeping curtains. Slender blue-green to gray-green needles are borne in dense whorled clusters on short spurs, and barrel-shaped upright cones sit on the upper branches, ripening from blue-green to reddish-brown and disintegrating on the tree. In the landscape it typically reaches 30-50 feet (with much greater potential in age and ideal sites), needs real room to spread, and is the most heat- and warmth-tolerant of the true cedars — thriving in zones 7-9 where spruce and fir falter, but it does want good drainage and is not a small-garden tree.