Loiano - Cedar - Scanello

Subject: Monumental trees

Toponym: Palazzo Loup

Type: Cedar

Municipality: Loiano

Locality: Scanello

Description:

Genus: Cedrus
Species: Atlantica
Height: 40 m
Trunk diameter: 127 cm
Crown diameter: 15 m

A fine example of Cedrus dedoarda, about 25 metres tall, with a trunk diameter of around 130 cm, so that it takes no fewer than four people to embrace it. The tree is approximately 400 years old and its top is cut off due to a grenade fragment which fell on it during the Second World War.