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While driving through the beautiful and desolated Peloponnesus you can encounter all kind of nice trees, olive trees oak tree but also this Cypress. I parked my car and wandered trough the olive orchards in this wonderful part of Greece. When I came back to my car and turned around to give a last glimpse on the orchards I realized this cypress stood proud at the edge of the roads, took a picture and went on.
When I came home I found this a nice photo and I posted it for TL. Hope you like this as well and if not please tell me why! Feel welcome to criticize this posting!
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Cypress
Cypress or Cupressus sempervirens, the Mediterranean Cypress, is a species of cypress native to the eastern Mediterranean region, in northeast Libya, southeast Greece (Crete, Rhodes), southern Turkey, Cyprus, western Syria, Lebanon and western Jordan, and also a disjunct population in Iran.
It is a medium-sized evergreen tree to 35 m tall, with a conic crown with level branches and variably pendulous branchlets (but see also below under 'Uses' for the differing cultivated variants). It is very long-lived, with some trees reported to be over 1,000 years old.
The foliage grows in dense sprays, dark green in colour. The leaves are scale-like, 2-5 mm long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots. The seed cones are ovoid or oblong, 25-40 mm long, with 10-14 scales, green at first, maturing brown about 20-24 months after pollination. The male cones are 3-5 mm long, and release pollen in February-March.
It is moderately susceptible to cypress canker, caused by the fungus Seridium cardinale, and can suffer extensive dieback where this disease is common.
The species name sempervirens comes from the Latin for 'evergreen'.
Mediterranean Cypress has been widely cultivated as an ornamental tree for millennia away from its native range, mainly throughout the central and western Mediterranean region, and in other areas with similar hot, dry summers and mild, rainy winters, including California, southwest South Africa and southern Australia). It can also be grown successfully in areas with cooler, moister summers, such as the British Isles, New Zealand and the Pacific Northwest (coastal Oregon, Washington and British Columbia). In some areas, particularly the U.S., it is known inaccurately as "Italian Cypress"; although the species is very commonly cultivated in Italy, it is not native there. (Text Wikipedia.com) |
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