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 Common
name(s):
Funereal cypress
Italian cypress
Mediterranean cypress
This species, a familiar tree in Italy, France and Spain, was
introduced to these countries from the eastern Mediterranean. It has
fine dark grayish green foliage with very tiny scale leaves in
slightly flattened sprays, and large, slightly elongated, pale brown
cones. In its growth habit the Mediterranean cypress exhibits a
curious phenomenon: the form usually cultivated, known as Stricta,
is narrowly columnar, but a proportion of its seedlings grow into
trees with side branches at a wide angle to the trunk; this form is
often known as Horizontalis. |
