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Chamaecyparis formosensis (Formosan cypress, Taiwan cypress, Taiwan red cypress; [1] Chinese: 紅檜/红桧 hóngguì, Taiwan pron. hóngkuài) is a species of Chamaecyparis, endemic to Taiwan, where it grows in the central mountains at moderate to high altitudes of 1000–2900 m.
Chamaecyparis, common names cypress or false cypress (to distinguish it from related cypresses), is a genus of conifers in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to eastern Asia (Japan and Taiwan) and to the western and eastern margins of the United States. [1]
The leaves are scale-like, 2–4 mm (3 ⁄ 32 – 5 ⁄ 32 in) long, and produced in opposite decussate pairs on somewhat flattened shoots; seedlings up to a year old have needle-like leaves. The tree is bare of branches for three-fourths of the trunk height and the bark can be ash-gray to reddish brown.
Chamaecyparis: Chamaecyparis lawsoniana, known as the Lawson's cypress or Port Orford cedar. [4] This is a native species to Oregon and northwestern California. [4] Taxodium: Taxodium ascendens, commonly known as pond cypress [5] and native to North America. Taxodium distichum, commonly known as bald cypress and native to the southeastern ...
It is a slow-growing coniferous tree growing to 40 m tall with a trunk up to 2 m in diameter. The bark is red-brown, vertically fissured and with a stringy texture. The foliage is arranged in flat sprays; adult leaves are scale-like, 0.8–1.5 mm long, with acute tips (unlike the blunt tips of the leaves of the closely related Japanese Chamaecyparis obtusa (Hinoki Cypress), green above, green ...
Chamaecyparis formosensis; L. Chamaecyparis lawsoniana; O. ... Chamaecyparis thyoides This page was last edited on 27 March 2013, at 06:43 (UTC). Text ...
Taiwan slug-eating snake – Pareas formosensis (Van Dengurgh) Formosa odd-scaled snake – Achalinus formosanus Boulenger; Black odd-scaled snake – Achalinus niger Maki; Maki's keelback – Hebius miyajimae Maki; Swinhoe's grass snake – Rhabdophis swinhonis (Günther) Formosa coral snake – Sinomicrurus sauteri (Steindachner)
In 2002, Aljos Farjon and others described the new genus Xanthocyparis to accommodate the new Vietnamese species X. vietnamensis and another species, the Nootka cypress, which had been formerly included in the genus Chamaecyparis as C. nootkatensis. [4]