Accession Data
Cupressus vietnamensis
Common Name: Golden Vietnamese Cypress
Family: Cupressaceae
Synonym(s): Xanthocyparis vietnamensis Farjon & Hiep
Country of Origin: N. Vietnam to China (N. Guangxi)
Description: Golden Vietnam cypress is a tree, 30 to 45 feet (10 – 15 m) tall, with a round, straight trunk. Bark is purplish to red-brown, smooth and thin on branches, exfoliating in thin flakes and strips; on the trunk of larger trees it is brown to gray-brown, soft and fibrous, exfoliating in numerous thin strips. Branches are long, spreading more or less horizontally; foliage branches are numerous, spreading mostly in plagiotropic overlapping sprays or slightly drooping, forming a pyramidal crown in young trees but a spreading, irregular or flat-topped crown in old tree4
Accession Data
Accession #: 201500039
Accession Date: 2015-05-29 00:00:00
Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering
Location: 3110
Quantity: 1
Source: Rob Nicholson - Smith College
Culture: karst limestone mountains - benefit with periodic lime?
Classification
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Subclass: Pinidae
Order: Cupressales
Family: Cupressaceae
SubFamily: Cupressoideae
References
- The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 29 May 2015.
- WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 29 May 2015.
- Cupressus vietnamensis at The Gymnosperm Database. Accessed 29 May 2015.
- Cupressus vietnamensis at American Conifer Society. Accessed 29 May 2015.
- Xanthocyparis vietnamensis at IUCN Redlist. Last accessed on Wednesday, May 30, 2018.
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