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Cypress is a common name for various coniferous trees or shrubs of northern temperate regions that belong to the family Cupressaceae. The word cypress is derived from Old French cipres, which was imported from Latin cypressus, the latinisation of the Greek κυπάρισσος (kyparissos). Cypress trees are a large classification of conifers, encompassing the trees and shrubs from the cypress family (Cupressaceae) and many others with the word “cypress” in their common name. Many cypress trees have needle-like, evergreen foliage and acorn-like seed cones. TOC Species that are commonly known as cypresses include: Cypress (multiple species within the genus Cupressus) Otherwise: African cypress (Widdringtonia species), native to Southern Africa Bald, Pond, and Montezuma cypresses (Taxodium species), native to North America Chinese swamp cypress (Glyptostrobus pensilis), Vietnam, critically endangered Cordilleran cypress (Austrocedrus chilensis), native to Chile and Argentina Cypress-pines (Actinostrobus species), southwestern Australia Cypress-pines (Callitris species), Australia and New Caledonia False cypress (Chamaecyparis species), Asia and North America. Fujian cypress (Fokienia hodginsii), southeastern China Guaitecas cypress (Pilgerodendron uviferum), western Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa), East Asia Patagonian cypress (Fitzroya cupressoides), southern Chile and Argentina Mediterranean cypress (Cupressus sempervirens), famous for its longevity, popular garden plant Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa), native to the Monterey Peninsula, California Nootka cypress (Cupressus nootkatensis), native to the Pacific Northwest of North America Siberian cypress (Microbiota decussata) Summer cypress (Bassia scoparia), in the family Amaranthaceae Western red cedar (Thuja plicata), native to North America. The family Cupressaceae also contains 13–16 other genera (not listed above) that do not bear cypress in their common names. File:Actinostrobos arenarius fruits murchison.

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Cupressaceae

Cupressaceae is a conifer family, the cypress family, with worldwide distribution. The family includes 27–30 genera (17 monotypic), which include the junipers and redwoods, with about 130–140 species in total. They are monoecious, subdioecious or (rarely) dioecious trees and shrubs up to tall. The bark of mature trees is commonly orange- to red- brown and of stringy texture, often flaking or peeling in vertical strips, but smooth, scaly or hard and square-cracked in some species.

Cupressus macrocarpa

Hesperocyparis macrocarpa also known as Cupressus macrocarpa, 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. Due to being a glacial relict, the natural distributional range of the species during modern times is confined to two small relict populations near Carmel, California, at Cypress Point in Pebble Beach and at Point Lobos.