Cupressus vietnamensis

Common name: Golden Vietnamese Cypress

Family: Cupressaceae

Synonym(s): <i>Xanthocyparis vietnamensis</i> 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

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Source: Rob Nicholson - Smith College

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Culture:

karst limestone mountains - benefit with periodic lime?

Classification:

• Division: Pinophyta
• Class: Pinopsida
• SubClass: Pinidae
• Order: Cupressales
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• Family: Cupressaceae
• SubFamily: Cupressoideae
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References:

1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 29 May 2015.
2. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 29 May 2015.
3. Cupressus vietnamensis at The Gymnosperm Database. Accessed 29 May 2015.
4. Cupressus vietnamensis at American Conifer Society. Accessed 29 May 2015.
5. Xanthocyparis vietnamensis at IUCN Redlist. Last accessed on Wednesday, May 30, 2018.

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