Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 8 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Cyprus | CYP | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| East Aegean Is. | EAI | |
| Iran | IRN | |
| Lebanon-Syria | LBS | |
| Palestine | PAL | |
| Türkiye | TUR | |
| Libya | LBY | AFRICA |
| Kriti | KRI | EUROPE |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 1,478 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -0.7 °C | 5.3 °C | 12.1 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 24.0 °C | 27.5 °C | 33.1 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 384 mm | 783 mm | 1,761 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 2 mm | 54 mm | 232 mm |
It is found where winters bring light frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 1,478 research-grade observations of Cupressus sempervirens that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 35 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Chamaecyparis thujiformis R.Sm. ex Gordon
- Cupressus conoidea Spadoni
- Cupressus elongata Salisb.
- Cupressus expansa G.Targ.Tozz. ex Steud.
- Cupressus fastigiata DC.
- Cupressus foemina Garsault
- Cupressus globulifera Parl.
- Cupressus horizontalis Mill.
- Cupressus horizontalis (Mill.) Voss
- Cupressus horizontalis var. pendula Endl.
- Cupressus lugubris Salisb.
- Cupressus mariae Sennen
- Cupressus mas Garsault
- Cupressus orientalis Beissn.
- Cupressus patula Pers.
- Cupressus pyramidalis O.Targ.Tozz.
- Cupressus roylei Carrière
- Cupressus sempervirens f. horizontalis (Mill.) Voss
- Cupressus sempervirens f. numidica Trab.
- Cupressus sempervirens f. stricta (Aiton) Rehder
- Cupressus sempervirens subsp. horizontalis (Mill.) A.Camus
- Cupressus sempervirens var. globulifera Parl.
- Cupressus sempervirens var. horizontalis (Mill.) Loudon
- Cupressus sempervirens var. pendula (Endl.) A.Camus
and 11 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.