| Scientific Name: | Cupressus x leylandii |
| Common Name: | Leyland cypress |
| Family Name: | Cupressaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 22 - 30m x 10 - 15m (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, Lustrous, Deltoid, Rhomboidal, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Yellow, Brown, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Brown, Aug-Sep |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves scale-like (awls, if present, are not sharp pointed), most 1-3mm long of fine branchlets, yellow-green to blue-green cvs.; pollen cones yellow-brown at branchlet tips; seed cones mostly 1.5-1.8cm round when just ripe (shrink to about 1cm round when dried), usually with 8 scales. | |