This rare cypress can reach a height of about 80 feet (25 meters) but often grows to be no higher than 30 feet (9 meters).
Leaves: The scaled leaves wrap around
tiny branching twigs. The leaves usually don't have visible resin dots like Modoc cypress and MacNab cypress.
Cones: Up to 1" (2.5 cm),
round with 6 or 8 scales and resin blisters.
Bark: The brown
bark is furrowed on large trunks.
Where
it grows: This cypress
grows in the coastal mountains of California. Several small trees were
discovered at one location in Oregon, near Selma in an area burned in
the 2002 Biscuit Fire ( on the map). See Cypress Species in Oregon by Frank Callahan.
Sargent cypress at Hoyt Arboretum
Names: Named
after Charles Sargent, founding director of the Arnold Arboretum at
Harvard University.
Recently, Taxonomists removed North American
cypresses from the Cupressus genus
and placed them in a new genus, Hesperocyparis.
For more information, see The
Gymnosperm Database.
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