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Key to Conifers
Cupressus - Cypress
Trees; stems 4-angled; scale leaves opposite, 4-ranked;
cones small, more or less globose, 1-3.5 cm long; cone scales
more or less peltate, with or without a prickly point.
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Cupressus arizonica - Arizona Cypress
(photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
Virginia)