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Family: Cupressaceae	Genus: Cupressus	Species: Cupressus funebris Endl.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Chamaecyparis funebris (Endl.) Franco, Cupressus funebris Endl., Cupressus funebris var. gracilis Carrière, Cupressus pendula Abel, Platycyparis funebris&	Flower Color	Yellow - Orange
Common Name	Funereal Cypress, Chinese Weeping Cypress, Mourning- cypress	Flower Type	Solitary
English / Trade Name	Funereal Cypress, Chinese Weeping Cypress	Flowering Period	April-June
Vernacular /Local Name		Fruiting Period	July-Sept
Altitude	Upto 2000m	Fruit Type	Follicle
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Its grey/ green cones up to 15mm long
Habitat	Forms woods on mountain slopes and ravines, especially in limestone areas	Bark Type	Exfoliating
Distribution	Eastern Asia - China.	Bark Details	Bark is thick, grey brown or brown, peeling off in longitudinal strips.
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park	Origin	Exotic
		Leaf Type	Needle-like
		Leaf Arrangement	Opposite (leaves in pairs along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Ovate
Description of Species	Trees to 30 m tall, branchletsarranged in a plane, pendulous, green, slender, flattened. Leaves densely appressed, scalelike, dimorphic, apex sharply pointed; facial pairs with a linear abaxial gland; lateral pairs folded face-to-face, overlapping basal part of facial pairs, ridged abaxially. Microsporophylls 10-12. Seed cones dark brown when ripe, globose, cone scales penta-angular, each fertile scale with 3-5 seeds. Seeds light brown, lustrous, obovate-rhombic or suborbicular, flattened.	Leaf Details	Leaves densely appressed, scalelike, dimorphic, apex sharply pointed; facial pairs with a linear abaxial gland; lateral pairs folded face-to- face, overlapping basal part of facial pairs, ridged abaxially.

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