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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 native to California. The Monterey cypress is found naturally only on the Central Coast of California .
Example species comprising the canopy include Cupressus macrocarpa. In some cases these forests have been severely damaged by goats, cattle and other grazing animals. [1] While cypress species are clearly dominant within a Cypress forest, other trees such as California Buckeye, Aesculus californica, are found in some Cypress forests. [2]
Cypress (multiple species within the genus Cupressus): Cupressus sempervirens, a common cypress also referred to as Italian cypress and Mediterranean cypress. [2] It is native to the eastern Mediterranean region and Iran. Hesperocyparis lusitanica, commonly known as the Mexican cypress, which is native to Mexico and Central America. [3 ...
Hesperocyparis (western cypress) [1] is a genus of trees in the family Cupressaceae, containing North American species otherwise assigned to the genus Cupressus. [2] They are found throughout western North America. Only a few species have wide ranges, with most being restricted-range endemics.
The California chaparral and woodlands is a terrestrial ecoregion of southwestern Oregon, northern, central, and southern California (United States) and northwestern Baja California , located on the west coast of North America. It is an ecoregion of the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome, and part of the Nearctic realm.
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 .
On young plants, the leaves are needle-like, becoming small and scale-like on mature plants of many genera; some genera and species retain needle-like leaves throughout their lives. [1] Old leaves are mostly not shed individually, but in small sprays of foliage ( cladoptosis ); [ 1 ] exceptions are leaves on the shoots that develop into branches.
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]