Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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Hesperocyparis macrocarpa
Monterey cypress
Cupressaceae
Urban bushland, dry coastal vegetation, woodland, grassland, and rocky areas. Mostly Sydney area. Occasionally elsewhere.
Introduced widely spreading tree to 20 m high. Bark brown, becoming whitish with age, shallowly ridged. Branches horizontally spreading. Branchlets 4-angled or cylindrical, in 2-dimensional sprays. Leaves with a lemony smell when rubbed, opposite each other, scale-like, usually about 2-8 mm long, dark green. Male and female cones on the same tree. Male cones oblong or elliptic, 3-5 mm long. Mature female cones oval to cylindrical, 20–50 mm long. Cones single at the ends of the branchlets. Seeds winged.
Was Cupressus macrocarpa.
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/2592401b-414c-4c0c-bd20-a33641f684d1 (accessed 1 May 2021)
Wikipedia description (as Cupressus macrocarpa): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupressus_macrocarpa (accessed 1 May 2021)
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