Fitzroya cupressoides

Patagonia cypress is a member of the cypress or Cupressaceae family and is native to the Andes Mountains of southern Chile and Argentina.

• It is the largest tree in South America, growing up to 60 m tall with a roughly pyramidal form. Branchlets are pendulous.
• Leaves are in alternating whorls of 3, 3.5 mm long, minutely incurved with 2 white bands beneath.
• Male and female strobili may be on the same or on different trees, with males in the leaf axils near the points of the shoots, cylindrical with 15–24 stamens in whorls of 3; female strobili are solitary, 6 mm in diameter, on short, stalk-like, leafy shoots. Cones are woody, 6–8 mm in diameter, ripening the first year, with 9 scales in 3 whorls.
• Bark is reddish, furrowed and peels off off in strips.