Cupressus gigantea

Tibetan cypress is in the cypress or Cupressaceae family. It is native to river valleys in south-eastern Tibet. It can reach up to 50 m tall. It is sometimes treated as a variety of Cupressus torulosa. Specimens can grow quite large and gnarled.

• Crown is irregularly conical to open. Branchlets are densely arranged, 1.2–2.0 mm in diameter, often glaucous, usually 4-angled, rarely cylindrical, the ultimate ones not drooping.
• Leaves are closely arranged, in 4 ranks, glaucous, scale-like, obtusely ridged or arched and with a rounded central gland.
• Seed cones are usually oblong-globose, glaucous, 1.5–2.0 cm long and 1.3–1.6 cm across, with approx. 12 cone scales, each fertile scale with numerous seeds; bracts are prominent, large.
• Bark is fibrous, orange-brown, becoming dark brown and gray with narrow, thick, flat-topped ridges.