White Cypress
White cypress is a common name for several plants and may refer to the following: * ''Callitris columellaris'', also known as white cypress, a species of coniferous tree native to most of Australia * ''Chamaecyparis thyoides ''Chamaecyparis thyoides'' (Atlantic white cedar, Atlantic white cypress, southern white cedar, whitecedar, or false-cypress), a species of ''Cupressaceae'', is native to the Atlantic coast of North America and is found from southern Maine to ...

Callitris Columellaris
''Callitris columellaris'' is a species of coniferous tree in the family Cupressaceae (cypress family), native to most of Australia. Common names include white cypress, white cypress-pine, Murray River cypress-pine, and northern cypress-pine. ''Callitris columellaris'' has become naturalised in Hawaii and in southern Florida. Description It is a small evergreen tree, 4–12 m (rarely to 20 m) high, with a trunk up to 50 cm diameter. The leaves are scale-like, 2–6 mm long and 0.5 mm broad, arranged in decussate whorls of three on very slender shoots 0.7–1 mm diameter. The cones are globose, 1–2 cm diameter, with six triangular scales, which open at maturity to release the seeds. Taxonomy Some authors (e.g. Thompson & Johnson 1986, followed by the ''Flora of Australia Online'') divide it into three species (or occasionally as varieties), based largely on the foliage colour, with green plants predominating on the east coast of Australia, and glaucous p ...
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