Cupressus sempervirens

🌲 Cupressus sempervirens – Mediterranean Cypress
📏 Height: 10–25 m | 🌿 Dark green, scaly, evergreen, aromatic foliage
🧱 Columnar or pyramidal, slender and elegant habit
🌍 Origin: Mediterranean Basin: 🇮🇹 🇬🇷 🇹🇷 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 | Symbol of eternity, memory, and Tuscan landscape
📍 Ideal for: Avenues, cemeteries, formal gardens, windbreak hedges | Delimits spaces and protects from wind
🌼 Flowering: Late winter – early spring | 🌸 Small yellowish flowers, monoecious
🌰 Fruit: Summer–autumn | Round woody cones (galbuli), decorative
💧 Tolerance: Full sun | 🌵 Drought-tolerant | ❄️ Cold-hardy to –15 °C
🪴 Prefers well-drained soils, even poor or calcareous | 🌊 Good salt tolerance
🧰 Care: Minimal pruning required (tolerates well) | 🌱 Medium-fast growth | 🛡 Long-lived, but susceptible to cypress canker in humid areas