Cypress tree
Cupressus spp.
EmergentClimax
Production
The classic Mediterranean sentinel — a narrow, dense evergreen that makes an unbeatable windbreak and boundary screen, plus durable timber. Slow and permanent, casting hard shade, so keep it to the edges.
Tolerances & traits
- Strata
- Emergent
- Lifecycle
- Climax
- Soil preference
- Loam, Rocky
- Soil pH range
- 6 – 8
- Min. temperature
- -12°C
- Min. rainfall
- 400 mm/year
- Wind tolerance
- High
- Frost tolerance
- High
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Irrigation needed
- Low
How to manage it
Use as a windbreak, visual screen, or dense boundary at system edges; valued for durable, rot-resistant timber once mature.
Watch out for
Removed 'biomass' tag — pruning response is slow, so it is not a chop-and-drop mulch producer. Tolerates heavy top-pruning poorly; casts dense, permanent shade beneath its canopy.
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