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OverviewThe Italian Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens), also renowned across the world as the Mediterranean cypress, Tuscan cypress, or pencil pine, is an iconic, deeply statuesque evergreen conifer belonging to the cypress family Cupressaceae. Indigenous to the rugged...
Plants > Conifers
The Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) is the tallest living organism on planet Earth, a majestic coniferous evergreen belonging to the cypress family Cupressaceae, endemic to the maritime fog-drenched coastal corridor of Northern California and southwestern Oregon....
Plants > Conifers
The Monkey Puzzle Tree (Araucaria araucana), also known locally as the Pehuén, is a majestic, ancient conifer belonging to the ancient family Araucariaceae, endemic to the rugged, snow-swept volcanic slopes of the southern Andes in Chile and Argentina. Known as a...
Plants > Conifers
The Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) is universally celebrated as the botanical equivalent of finding a living dinosaur walking through a modern forest. Belonging to the prehistoric conifer family Araucariaceae, this magnificent evergreen tree was known only from...
Plants > Conifers
The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) is the oldest non-clonal living organism on planet Earth, an ancient, gnarled coniferous sentinel that has stood vigil atop the freezing, storm-lashed mountain crests of the American West for nearly five millennia....
Plants > Conifers
The Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) is the world’s most massive single living organism by total trunk volume, an ancient coniferous colossus that reigns over the moist, western slopes of California’s Sierra Nevada range. Confined to approximately...
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