What is a Mediterranean Cypress Tree?


This is a long lived tree, the colors of leaves is a green, the stem is a brown color. It a very long lived with some trees reported to be over 1000 years old.

Cupressus sempervirens is a species of Cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region.

The foliage grows in dense sprays, dark green in colour. The leaves are scale like 2 to 5 mm long, and produced on rounded shoots. The seeds cones are ovoid or oblong 25 to 40 mm long, with 10 to 14 scales. It is a moderately susceptible to Cypress canker, caused by the fungus.

It is a also known as the churchyard Cypress from being often found standing surrounding a graveyard.

What is a scientific name of Mediterranean Cypress?

Scientific name: Cupressus sempervirens

Family: Cupressaceae

Kingdom: Plantae

Order: Pinales.


What is a uses of Mediterranean Cypress Tree?

Mediterranean Cypress has been widely cultivated is an ornamental tree for millennia away from its native range, mainly throughout the whole Mediterranean region, and in other areas with similar hot, dry summers and mild, rainy winters, including California, Southwest South Africa and Southern Australia.

It can be grown successful in areas with cooler, moister summers, such as the British Isles, New Zealand and the Pacific Northwest, Washington and British Columbia.

What is a size of Mediterranean Cypress Tree?

A very long and big size of these tree.The Italian Cypress is an evergreen tree that can be grown up to 115 ft tall and 10 ft wide. However the tree usually averages 50 feet in height and 3 feet in width. The Italian Cypress has a dense columnar crown and is symmetrical in shape.