Object Details
- Hardiness
- -20 - 30 F
- Attracts
- Butterflies w/ host
- Provenance
- From a cultivated plant not of known wild origin
- Accession Number
- 2015-2179A
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Life Form
- Evergreen tree
- Average Height
- 30-50'
- Bark Characteristics
- Smooth, reddish bark which exfoliates in thin flakes and strips.
- Cone Characteristics
- Spherical, reddish brown, with 6-8 shield-shaped scales. 1" diameter. Remain on tree for 2 or more years, even after seeds have shed.
- Foliage Characteristics
- Scale-like, blue-green foliage which is dotted with tiny white flecks. These flecks are resin glands which produce a turpentine fragrance.
- Structure
- Pyramidal
- Range
- cultivated
- See more items in
- Smithsonian Gardens Tree Collection
- On Display
- Ripley Gardens
- Common Name
- Arizona Smooth Cypress cultivar
- Group
- [vascular plants]
- Class
- Equisetopsida
- Subclass
- Pinidae
- Order
- Cupressales
- Family
- Cupressaceae
- Genus
- Hesperocyparis
- Species
- glabra
- Smithsonian Gardens
- Topic
- Trees
- Living Collections
- Record ID
- ofeo-sg_2015-2179A
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ax7ecd6b303-7508-487d-b560-cd0b00c835b0
