Cupressus arizonica

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Plant Characteristics
Habit   tree

Height: 40 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 40. to 50 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50.
Lifespan: perennial
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Exposure: sun
Water: moderate
Features: evergreen
USDA Zones: 7 to 9.5
Scientific Names

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Cupressus arizonica, the Arizona Cypress, is a species of cypress native to the southwest of North America.

It is a medium-sized evergreen tree with a conic to ovoid-conic crown. It grows to heights of 10-25 m, and its trunk diameter reaches 0.5 m. The foliage grows in dense sprays, varying from dull gray-green to bright glaucous blue-green in color. The leaves are scale-like, 2-5 mm long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots. The seed cones are globose to oblong, 15-33 mm long, with 6 or 8 (rarely 4 or 10) scales, green at first, maturing gray or gray-brown about 20–24 months after pollination. The cones remain closed for many years, only opening after the parent tree is killed in a wildfire, thereby allowing the seeds to colonize the bare ground exposed by the fire. The male cones are 3-5 mm long, and release pollen in February-March.

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