Cupressus torulosa

Himalayan cypress or Bhutan cypress is in the cypress or Cupressaceae family and is native to south Asia. It is a large tree, reaching up to 45 m tall.

• Crown is large oval to broadly conical. Branches slender, drooping, with thin, whip-like tips; branchlets are cylindrical, nearly quadrangular, branching in whorls; shoots in a single plane.
• Leaves are scale-like, closely pressed to the twigs, blunt, dark green with a small dorsal furrow.
• Species is monoecious; seed cones are globose or elliptic, in groups on very short stalks, 10–20 mm across, green or purple when young, later turning dark brown, composed of 6–8 scales, with a small central depression and a small, triangular, reflexed mucro; cones appear in February-March, maturing in May-June; pollen cones are globose or oblong, 5–6 mm long.
• Bark is thick, grey brown or brown, peeling off in longitudinal strips.