Cupressaceae

Subfamily Callitroideae

• Callitris glaucophylla
• Callitris intratropica
• Callitris rhomboidea
• Pilgerodendron uviferum
• Widdringtonia cedarbergensis
• Widdringtonia nodiflora

Subfamily Cupressoideae

• Chamaecyparis thyoides
• Cupressus goveniana var. pigmaea
• Cupressus lusitanica

Subfamily Sequoioideae

• Sequoia sempervirens

Subfamily Taxodioideae

• Glyptostrobus pensilis

• Query IPNI
• Common Name: Water Pine, Chinese Swamp Cypress
• Family: Cupressaceae Bartling

• Country of Origin: Vietnam
• Habitat: swampy forest

• Description: This species is one of the most ancient conifers, with a history that dates back more than 100 million years. Until recently, the genus was widespread across Asia and Europe but after the last series of glaciations, its populations have been reduced to 2 small pockets in Dac Lac in Vietnam. Chinese populations are considered introduced.

  Height and Spread: Up to 20m tall, usually smaller, with dbh to 1m. Habit: Upright with pyramidal crown, becoming broader with age, smallest branchlets usually deciduous. Pneumatophores often found around the partly buttressed base of the tree. Bark: Red brown, thick, fibrous and peeling in strips. Foliage: Two types of foliage. Mature foliage on persistent shoots or fertile shoots scale like, appressed to branchlet, juvenile and new foliage linear, 6-10 mm long, stomata on all surfaces. Cones: female cones terminal, ovoid globose, with up to 10 soft woody scales with teeth along margins, up to 3cm long and 1.5cm wide, appearing in July to October, ripening and shedding seed on the tree in November of following year, cones usually persistent, male cones terminal and solitary. Seed: oval, 5-6mm long with a long wing on the basal side.