| Scientific Name: | Cupressus arizonica |
| Common Name: | Arizona cypress |
| Family Name: | Cupressaceae |
| Origin: | U.S. - southwest |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense |
| Form: | Columnar, Oval - vertical, Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Hedge row, Screening, Specimen plant, Wind break |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Alkaline, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Scale-like, Opposite, Imbricate, Leathery, Glabrous, Glaucous, Deltoid, Rhomboidal, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Yellow, Brown, Feb-Mar |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Brown, Aug-Sep, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves mostly scale-like (especially for cultivars), about 2 and tightly packed on 4-sided twigs 1-2mm wide, more awl-like and 4mm long on twigs >2mm wide, and produced on rounded shoots (not flattened); pollen cones are 3-5mm long; seed cones on short stalk, rounded, 1.5-2(-3)cm wide, with 6-8 scales, bluish maturing brown-grey, persistent. | |