The Atlas Cedar of Parc La Grange

Parc La Grange keeps two enormous cedars from two different mountain ranges. One, near the main house, is a Cedar of Lebanon descended from seed gifted in 1735. The other, over five and a half metres round the trunk, is an Atlas cedar, native not to the Levant but to the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and Algeria, and Geneva's cantonal register rates it in good health with a canopy 23 metres across and a height of 29 metres. Cedar of Lebanon and Atlas cedar look similar enough at a glance, both broad and flat topped with the same grey green needles, that telling them apart takes a second look at the cones rather than a first glance at the silhouette. This one has no documented planting date, and the register's last field visit was in 2014, over a decade old now, the oldest confirmed sighting of any tree on this list. It is still a genuinely large specimen in a park built around genuinely large trees, worth remembering as a second cedar rather than a repeat of the one most visitors are pointed toward. This one stands elsewhere in the same grounds, near Avenue Alice-et-William-Favre, roughly fifteen minutes from the city centre by bus or tram.