Cupressus Cupressus, Miller
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3. C. lusitanica Miller View in CoL , Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 3 (1768).
Tree up to 30 m, with spreading branches and more or less pendent leading shoot and twigs, forming a pyramidal crown on young trees, usually flat-topped on old ones. Leaves 1 - 5-2 mm, green to glaucous, acute to acuminate. Male cone 4-6 mm; female 10-15 mm, globose, glaucous when young but shining brown when fully ripe, with 6-8 usually prominently mucronate scales. Seeds 8-10 on each scale. Planted for timber and ornament in S. Europe. [Ga Hs It Lu.] (Mexico and Guatemala.)
A very polymorphic species, varying greatly in habit and leafcolour.
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Cupressus Cupressus
| Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. 1964 |
C. lusitanica
| Miller 1768: 8 |