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Cypress is a common name for various coniferous trees or shrubs from the Cupressus genus of the Cupressaceae family, typically found in warm-temperate and subtropical regions of Asia, Europe, and North America.
Taxodium distichum (baldcypress, [3] [4] [5] bald-cypress, [6] bald cypress, swamp cypress; French: cyprès chauve; cipre in Louisiana) is a deciduous conifer in the family Cupressaceae. It is native to the southeastern United States. Hardy and tough, this tree adapts to a wide range of soil types, whether wet, salty, dry, or swampy.
Cupressus is one of several genera of evergreen conifers within the family Cupressaceae that have the common name cypress; for the others, see cypress. It is considered a polyphyletic group. Based on genetic and morphological analysis, the genus Cupressus is found in the subfamily Cupressoideae .
Hesperocyparis arizonica was given its first scientific name and described by Edward Lee Greene in 1882 as Cupressus arizonica, placing it in genus Cupressus. [3] [5] This description was soon after disputed by Maxwell T. Masters who, in 1896, published a journal article where he said it should be considered a subspecies of Cupressus benthamii with the variety name of arizonica. [3]
Dawn redwood is widely planted as an ornamental tree because of its excellent horticultural qualities, rapid growth and status as a living fossil. [26] Giant sequoia is a popular ornamental tree [27] and is occasionally grown for timber. [28] Giant sequoia, [29] Leyland cypress, and Arizona cypress are grown to a small extent as Christmas trees ...
Cupressaceae (cypress family) Athrotaxis selaginoides: King Billy pine Cupressaceae (cypress family) Callitris: cypress-pines; Callitris columellaris: white cypress-pine; Murray River cypress-pine; northern cypress-pine Cupressaceae (cypress family) Callitris preissii: Rottnest Island cypress-pine Cupressaceae (cypress family) Callitris verrucosa
In Jewish tradition, cypress is held to be the wood used to build Noah's Ark [citation needed] and Solomon's Temple, [20] and is mentioned as an idiom or metaphor in biblical passages, either referencing the tree's shape as an example of uprightness or its evergreen nature as an example of eternal beauty or health. The tree features in ...
Hesperocyparis macrocarpa also known as Cupressus macrocarpa, [4] [5] or the Monterey cypress is a coniferous tree, and is one of several species of cypress trees endemic to California. The Monterey cypress is found naturally only on the Central Coast of California .