Plant: Arizona Cypress Tree
Arizona Cypress · Cupressus arizonica
Size: 15 gal
Light
Mature size
More about this plant
Arizona cypress is a fast growing evergreen tree with an erect, pyramidal to conical crown and stout horizontal branches, carrying fine textured scale foliage that ranges from green to blue green or grey green. NCSU records it at 40 to 60 feet tall and 15 to 20 feet wide, with furrowed brown bark and cones about one to three inches long. It wants full sun and loam, sand or clay soils with good drainage, uses little water once established, and resists deer, drought, heat, disease, insect pests and salt. It is used for screens, barriers, windbreaks and specimens, and gives cover and nesting sites to songbirds and small mammals.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 60 ft tall and 20 ft wide
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-11
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Arizona cypress is a fast growing evergreen tree with an erect, pyramidal to conical crown and stout horizontal branches, carrying fine textured scale foliage that ranges from green to blue green or grey green. NCSU records it at 40 to 60 feet tall and 15 to 20 feet wide, with furrowed brown bark and cones about one to three inches long. It wants full sun and loam, sand or clay soils with good drainage, uses little water once established, and resists deer, drought, heat, disease, insect pests and salt. It is used for screens, barriers, windbreaks and specimens, and gives cover and nesting sites to songbirds and small mammals.
- Foliage
- Evergreen scales, green to blue-green or grey-green.
- Fruit
- As a conifer it does not produce fruits, producing grey-brown cones instead.
- Bark & stems
- Bark is dark brown to light brown with red tones and a furrowed surface.
- Native range
- W. Texas to extreme southern Nevada, southern Arizona and northern Mexico
