cypresses
Cupressus
Cupressus, the cypresses, is a genus of conifers in the cypress family, Cupressaceae. It is one of several genera in the family that share the same common name; for the others, see cypress. It is currently considered a polyphyletic group. Based on genetic and morphological analysis, the genus Cupressus is in the subfamily Cupressoideae.
The common name "cypress" comes via the Old French cipres from the Latin cyparissus, which is the latinisation of the Greek κυπάρισσος (kypárissos). The name derives from Cyparissus, a mythological figure who was turned into a tree after killing a stag.
16 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Mediterranean cypress
speciesCupressus sempervirens
West Himalayan cypress
speciesCupressus torulosa
Bhutan cypress
speciesCupressus cashmeriana
Chinese weeping cypress
speciesCupressus pendula
Cupressus funebris
speciesCupressus funebris
Saharan cypress
speciesCupressus dupreziana
Yunnan cypress
speciesCupressus duclouxiana
Tsangpo cypress
speciesCupressus majestica
Cheng cypress
speciesCupressus chengiana
Moroccan cypress
speciesCupressus atlantica
Tibetan cypress
speciesCupressus austrotibetica
Bhutan cypress
speciesCupressus corneyana
Cupressus fallax
speciesCupressus fallax
Cupressus tonkinensis
speciesCupressus tonkinensis
Cupressus gansuensis
speciesCupressus gansuensis
Cupressus rushforthii
speciesCupressus rushforthii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.117
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.123
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.315
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.155
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 5 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.13
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.334
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 49292.