Cupressus cashmeriana Kashmir cypress

Cupressus cashmeriana, Kingscote Gardens. John Rawlings, ca. 2005

An exotic blue-green cypress with drooping branches and small ½-inch diameter cones (cf. C. funebris). A 7-foot high specimen was planted summer 2003 in the Kingscote Gardens front lawn. It did poorly; it was removed, as was its replacement. A third Kashmir cypress was planted near the same location in February, 2005. ‘Himalaya Darjeelingensis’ was planted near the Kingscote Garden pond in December, 2005, and another on the north side of the Arizona Garden in December, 2007.

Cupressus cashmeriana branchlet. From Trees of Stanford and Environs, Ronald Bracewell

Name derivation: Cupressus – classical Latin name for C. sempervirens ; cashmeriana – of Kashmir.