Cupressus bakeri

Baker cypress is a member of the cypress or Cupressaceae family and is a rare species native to small areas in northern California and southwestern Oregon in the United States. It is slow-growing and is found on sites difficult for plant growth. It has a conic crown and reaches a height of up to 25 m tall.

• Foliage is scale-like, 2–5 mm long, tight and crowded on the twig, growing in sparse, very fragrant, usually pendulous sprays, colour from dull gray-green to glaucous blue-green. Shoots are rounded (not flattened).
• Male cones are 3–5 mm long, and release pollen in February–March. Seed cones are round to nearly square, woody, serotinous (open with fire), covered in warty resin glands; length is 1.0–2.5 cm, with 6 or 8 (rarely 4 or 10) scales with pointed umbos near the top of each scale, green to brown at first, maturing gray or gray-brown about 20–24 months after pollination.
• Bark is fibrous with shallow, irregular furrows, gray, thin and easily damaged by fire.