Italian Cypress

It is the classical Mediterranean cypress, the most famous, with its thin pointed green columns that reach the height of 50m. It is too delicate to stand northern climates and it only growths in the warmer zones of Great Britain. It is close to the cypress macrocarpa, differentiated only by its narrower shape, the smaller tighter and less aromatic leaves and its seeds almost without warts.

Encyclopedia BLUME, Trees, wood and forests of the world, H. Edlin/M.Nimmo, page 90.