 | Cupressus duclouxiana HickelCommon NamesChinese cypress (1).Taxonomic notesSyn: C. sempervirens Franchet non Linnaeus (2).Description"Tree up to 25 m high. Branches slender and horizontal. Shoots spreading in all directions, not in a single plane, very slender (less than 1 mm in diameter). Leaves very small, 1 mm long, bluish-green, indistinctly glandular. Cones globose, 2-2.5 cm across, usually composed of 8 scales, rather flat. Seed 3.5 mm long, reddish-brown. Cotyledons 2" (1).Differs from its close relative C. sempervirens, "in its slenderer branchlets (about [0.6-0.9 mm] diameter), with very small, bright or bluish-green, obscurely glandular leaves about [1.25 mm] long" (2). RangeChina: 1000-2000 m in mountains of W Yunnan, Sichuan & Gansu (1).Big TreeOldestDendrochronologyEthnobotanyA popular European ornamental (1).ObservationsRemarksCitations(1) Vidakovic 1991. (2) Dallimore & Jackson 1967.See also Silba 1986. |
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