Identification: What tree with clusters of 10 needles, bluish drooping tips

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    wcutler Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator VCBF Cherry Scout 10 Years

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    I'm assuming this decorative looking tree should have a central trunk leader, but it's so shapely that I'm not even sure of that. We did wonder if it's the same as the ones nearby with a normal leader that have drooping tips but not the bluish new growth. Needles seem to be in groups of about 10. I didn't notice any cones, not that I remembered to look. Is it some type of larch?
     

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    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    Sheared Himalayan cedar.
     
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    wcutler Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator VCBF Cherry Scout 10 Years

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    Thanks, Ron. According to Straley's Trees of Vancouver, it turns out there are a lot of them in Vancouver, which I suppose I'll start seeing all over the place now. I'm guessing most of them have not been sheared.
     
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    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    Might be the biggest sheared example I've seen in this region - not that I've made a point of remembering such. A natural form example near A.L. Jacobson, in Seattle is well over 100' tall. When I viewed a row of them in Sacramento dating from 1871* the scale of the planting was so oversize I lost my sense of being grounded looking at them. Had the same experience walking up the lawn between the rows of big cedars at Westonbirt in Britain.

    *According to North American Landscape Trees (1996, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley) a Sacramento example - surely one from this planting - measured 101' x 17'9" during 1989
     
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    Michael F Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator 10 Years

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    I doubt that it would produce any as long as it gets sheared.
     

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