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Plant: Carolina Sapphire - Arizona Cypress Tree
Arizona Cypress · Cupressus arizonica 'Carolina Sapphire'
Size: Pom pom 15 gal
Light
Mature size
More about this plant
Carolina Sapphire is a selection of Arizona cypress, a fast growing evergreen conifer with an erect, pyramidal crown and fine textured scale foliage that runs green to blue green or grey green. The species grows in full sun in loam, sand or clay soils with good drainage, needs little water once established, and shrugs off deer, drought, heat, disease, insect pests and salt. Brown furrowed bark and cones roughly one to three inches long follow, and the dense evergreen habit provides cover and nesting sites for songbirds and small mammals. It suits screens, barriers, windbreaks and specimen planting on dry sunny sites.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 40 ft tall and 25 ft wide
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-11
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Carolina Sapphire is a selection of Arizona cypress, a fast growing evergreen conifer with an erect, pyramidal crown and fine textured scale foliage that runs green to blue green or grey green. The species grows in full sun in loam, sand or clay soils with good drainage, needs little water once established, and shrugs off deer, drought, heat, disease, insect pests and salt. Brown furrowed bark and cones roughly one to three inches long follow, and the dense evergreen habit provides cover and nesting sites for songbirds and small mammals. It suits screens, barriers, windbreaks and specimen planting on dry sunny sites.
- 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
