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Common Names
Origin
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habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

habit (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

main trunk (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

branchlets and tiny scale-like leaves (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

small male cones on the tips of the branchlets (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

young female cone (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

mature female cones (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

bluish-green immature female cones of the similar Mexican cypress (Cupressus lusitanica), which has recently become naturalised in eastern Australia (Photo: Sheldon Navie)

Cupressus macrocarpa

Scientific Name

Cupressus macrocarpa Hartw. ex Gordon

Family

Cupressaceae

Common Names

Monterey cypress

Origin

Native to south-western USA (i.e. Monterey Peninsula in California) and Guadalupe Island, off northern-western Mexico.

Naturalised Distribution

Naturalised in the eastern parts of South Australia and in Victoria. Also sparingly naturalised in Tasmania and possibly naturalised in the coastal districts of central New South Wales.

Naturalised overseas in New Zealand.

Notes

This species is regarded as an environmental weed in Victoria and Tasmania, and a potential environmental weed or "sleeper weed" in South Australia. Small populations have invaded dry coastal vegetation, lowland grasslands, grassy woodlands and rocky outcrop vegetation in Victoria.

It has also been reported from Scott Creek Conservation Park in Adelaide and in urban bushland in the Hornsby Plateau region to the north of Sydney Harbour.