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Key to Conifers
XCupressocyparis - Leyland Cypress
Trees; branchlets forming flattened sprays; leaves
scale-like, opposite; cones small, more or less globose, about
2-3 cm long; cone scales more or less peltate
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XCupressocyparis leylandii - Leland Cypress
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Bigeneric hybrid from the cross Cupressus macrocarpa
X Chamaecyparis nootkatensis
(Photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
VA)
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