Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Callitris glaucophylla
Common name
White cypress pine
Family
Cupressaceae
Where found
Forest, woodland, and rocky sites. Western Slopes and Kosciuszko National Park. Tablelands west of Bombala. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Tree to 20 m tall. Bark rough and furrowed. Branchlets rounded-triangular, grooved longitudinally, glaucous, hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, in whorls of 3, 0.1-0.6 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, scale-like, the outer surface rounded, the bases appressed to the branchlets, surfaces hairless, bluish grey, occasionally dark green, glaucous when young. Juvenile leaves more or less free from the branches, in whorls of 3-5, needle-like. Male and female cones on the same tree. Male cones single or several together, cylindrical, to 10 mm long. Female cones single, sometimes in groups of 2 or more, oval to almost globular. Mature female cones 10-30 mm in diameter when open, woody, alternate scales slightly shorter and narrower. Seeds numerous, chestnut-coloured; wings 2 or 3, about 4 mm wide.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Callitris~glaucophylla (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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