| Scientific Name: | Cupressus sempervirens |
| Common Name: | Italian cypress, Mediterranean cypress |
| Family Name: | Cupressaceae |
| Origin: | Europe |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 0.6 - 1.0m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense |
| Form: | Columnar |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Group or mass planting, Screening, Wind break |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Alkaline, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Scale-like, Opposite, Imbricate, Leathery, Glabrous, Glaucous, Rhomboidal, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Yellow, Brown, Feb-Mar |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Brown, Aug-Sep, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Narrowly conical evergreen conifer; leaves scale-like, rhomboidal, 1-2mm wide; seed cones on short stalk, rounded, 2-3cm wide, with 8-14 scales, green or bluish before slowly maturing brown-grey, persistent. | |