Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Hesperocyparis macrocarpa
Common name
Monterey cypress
Family
Cupressaceae
Where found
Urban bushland, dry coastal vegetation, woodland, grassland, and rocky areas. Mostly Sydney area. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
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)
This identification key and fact sheets are available as a free mobile application:
