Arbutus

Arbuts x 'Marina'

1. SHRF Plant Data Sheet

Illustrations

1. habit
2. fruit and flower

Cupressus torulosa HIMALAYAN CYPRESS Himalayan Mountains

There is a handsome individual on the northwest side of the Cactus Garden and one among the Funeral Cypress on the garden's southern side. Like the Funeral Cypress it has small cones, usu less than ½ inch in diameter, but can be differentiated from its neighbors by its taller, single-trunked, broadly pyramidal form, and by its branchlets which are in three-dimensional clusters (not flat sprays). The thicker, more fibrous bark also distinguishes it from C. funebris.

Cupressus torulosa (habit, photo taken from Cactus Garden looking west)

References:

• Cupressus, Flora of China, vol. 4.
• Abrams, L.R. 1913. The Gymnosperms Growing on the Grounds of Stanford University. Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Series.
• Anon. 195? The Gymnosperms Growing on the Grounds of Stanford University, after L. R. Abrams, Stanford Univ. Publ. Univ. Ser. 1913; nomenclature revised according to L. H. Bailey, Man. Cultivated Plants, 1949.