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Cupressus sempervirens, the Mediterranean cypress (also known as Italian cypress, [1] Tuscan cypress, Persian cypress, or pencil pine), is a species of cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region and Iran.
As part of spiting the new world cypress species into the new genus Hesperocyparis it was moved out of Cupressus by Jim A. Bartel in 2009. [3] This split has not been universally accepted, [8] but as of 2024 Plants of the World Online (POWO) and World Flora Online (WFO) both list the new classification as accepted. [3] [9]
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It is an IUCN Red List Critically Endangered species, and a California Native Plant Society Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants listed Seriously endangered species. [ 1 ] [ 9 ] The entire native (world) population of the tree was reduced down to thirty to forty individual trees by the 2003 Cedar Fire .
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Close up of Santa Cruz cypress seeds. The reproductive age of the Santa Cruz cypress is on average 11 years of age. Seed viability falls to 10 percent by the time a tree is 30 years old. [8] Like some other coniferous trees, the seed-bearing cones of the Santa Cruz cypress depend on fire to heat open the cone and release the seeds. The fires ...
Cypress-pines (Callitris species), Australia and New Caledonia [15] False cypress (Chamaecyparis species), Asia and North America. [16] Fujian cypress (Fokienia hodginsii), southeastern China [17] Guaitecas cypress (Pilgerodendron uviferum), western Patagonia [18] and Tierra del Fuego [13] Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa), East Asia
Guadalupe cypress is a coniferous evergreen tree with a dome-shaped and broad crown when fully mature. [3] The species is variable in size, with mature trees reaching 12–20 metres (39–66 ft) tall, though they are noted as being towards the lower end of this range in their native habitat in the 2000s. [4]