What is the Italian cypress?
Italian cypress is a strikingly thin evergreen family Cupressus Cypress. This tall and straight tree, originally from the Mediterranean, has spread to various dry areas of the world, from California to Turkey. This tree is commonly used in a dry climate when other alternatives simply do not work.
Blue-green Italian cypress goes through many names, except for its scientific name, Cupressus sempervirens . It is often referred to as Mediterranean or Tuscan Cypress, due to the Eastern Mediterranean, where this tree first rooted four or more millennia. Other common names include a cemetery or Spanish cypress, as well as pine pencils.
Although this tree is widely recognized worldwide in 2011, it has become part of iconography at least 4,000 years ago. Several Iranian ancient royal gardens have an important range of Italian cypresses, including Guinness Book of World Records 'CII YAZD in the country-and many who touch the Holy Landscape on Carmel Mountain in Israel. Due to the colonization and resistance of the plant in an exhausting climate, it has become a popular choice of landscape in drier geographical regions around the world.
In the United States, the Italian cypress is the best for the Zones of the Ministry of Agriculture in the US (USDA) seven to nine, which stretch from Florida, Oklahoma and Arkansas through Texas, Out to California and on the West Coast. The main requirement for growing this tree is full of sun. Although it is successful in regularly moistened soil, it is known to be particularly resistant to drought. Under optimal conditions, this tree can grow up to 3 feet (nearly 1 m) each year, but only about 2 feet (0.6 m) or 3 feet (1 m) will be expanded in full cultivation. At that moment, Toy is up up to 20 feet (7 m) or 30 feet (9 m).
Italian cypress is often used as picturesque wind giantzov along agricultural land or long private units. It is also regularly used to bend the front door or protect drain. It has a thick but soft texture that will not capture any clothes or hands with thorns, evenly vertical orientation that is suitable for completing architectural elements.
Italian cypress is one of the at least a dozen other species in the family Cupressus of the Cupressaceae family cypresses. However, other species do not have the shape of this tree similar to a pencil. These include cypress trees with common names such as Tibetan, Weeping, Saharan, Bhutan or Himalayas.