Dwarf cypress is a common name used for several plants in the conifer family
Cupressaceae
Cupressaceae is a conifer family, the cypress family, with worldwide distribution. The family includes 27–30 genera (17 monotypic), which include the junipers and redwoods, with about 130–140 species in total. They are monoecious, subdio ...
(cypress family)
''Dwarf cypress'' may refer to:
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Actinostrobus acuminatus
''Actinostrobus acuminatus'', commonly known as dwarf cypress, creeping pine or Moore cypress pine,Eckenwalder, J.E. 2009. ''Conifers of the World: The Complete Reference''. Timber Press. p. 123 is a species of coniferous tree in the Cupressac ...
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Callitris monticola
''Callitris monticola'', commonly known as the steelhead or dwarf cypress (a name it shares with several other plants), is a species of conifer in the family Cupressaceae. It is found only in Australia, occurring in the states of Queensland and ...
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Chamaecyparis
''Chamaecyparis'', common names cypress or false cypress (to distinguish it from related cypresses), is a genus of conifers in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to eastern Asia (Japan and Taiwan) and to the western and eastern margins of th ...
'' are known in horticulture as miniature or dwarf cypress.
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Taxodium ascendens
''Taxodium ascendens'', also known as pond cypress, is a deciduous conifer of the genus ''Taxodium'', native to North America. Many botanists treat it as a variety of bald cypress, ''Taxodium distichum'' (as ''T. distichum'' var. ''imbricatum'') ...
'' - Pond cypress growing with limited nutrients forms ''dwarf cypress savannah'' in the
Everglades National Park
Everglades National Park is an American national park that protects the southern twenty percent of the original Everglades in Florida. The park is the largest tropical wilderness in the United States and the largest wilderness of any kind east ...
in
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to ...
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Lepidothamnus fonkii
''Lepidothamnus fonkii'' ( es, ciprés enano) is a species of conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. It is found in Argentina and Chile. It is threatened by habitat loss
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) is ...
'' – a species of conifer in the family
Podocarpaceae
Podocarpaceae is a large family of mainly Southern Hemisphere conifers, known in English as podocarps, comprising about 156 species of evergreen trees and shrubs.James E. Eckenwalder. 2009. ''Conifers of the World''. Portland, Oregon: Timber Pre ...
found in Argentina and Chile.
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