Some of the larger cypresses are believed to be over 600 years old.

I ordered the cypresses to be counted and they came to 300.

They had just reached the coast and were flying over cypresses.

The only light came from ribbons of fire burning here and there in the cypresses.

Great cypresses reared up from pools of brown water on either side.

Century old cypresses help to give a mystical feeling to the site of the chapel.

Someone was walking up the hill, and his whisper echoed in the cypresses.

It is large green space including pines and cypresses.

The vicinity is known for its cypresses which can grow up to 30 meters.

You can just barely glimpse it, among the branches of the cypresses, see?

It is a beautiful, isolated spot, complete with pines and cypresses.

This day sailed to the island of the cypresses.

"Pete, I want you to identify the island of cypresses tonight.

The outlines of the cypresses that lined it were sharp and clear.

He caught her arm and drew her back under the cypresses.

Come at least for tea or a stroll among the cypresses and magnolias.

And the sun was winking again in the cypresses.

There was a great screen of cypresses, Stella said.

The cypresses were palm trees, the storefronts the open ocean.

There were cypresses on the ridges above them, and a species of pine she'd not encountered before.

The moon was large over the cypresses, and the candlelight poured from the open doors.

Or perhaps she ought to re-hang the fortress and the cypresses.

I've never heard of any island of cypresses round here."

Ornamental cypresses had grown to great heights among the human structures.

The ravine became filled, like a cemetery, with cypresses and palms.

Near the house, bastions of clipped yew and soaring false cypresses in vivid green contrast with purple-leaved plum and the pale variegated foliage of red-barked dogwoods.

Plants like pines and false cypresses have narrow foliage and are called needle evergreens; plants like hollies and rhododendrons have wider foliage and are called broad-leaved evergreens.

And in real life, some big golden Chamaecyparis can seem just too big, too gold.

The name Hinohara means the field or forest of Chamaecyparis obtusa.

Small cultivars of Chamaecyparis are known in horticulture as miniature or dwarf cypress.

"We grow one against a golden chamaecyparis," Mr. Hinkley said.

The specific epithet chamaecyparissus literally means "like Chamaecyparis" (cypress), though it is not closely related to that plant.

Taxifolin 3-O-glucoside isomers have been separated from Chamaecyparis obtusa.

It may be added that attempts to cross Nootka cypress with other Chamaecyparis species have been universally unsuccessful.

The larvae feed on Cryptomeria japonica and Chamaecyparis obtusa.

In its characteristics, Fokienia is intermediate between the genera of Chamaecyparis and Calocedrus.

Golden accents are supplied by the yellow-tipped foliage of the evergreen Chamaecyparis obtusa Crippsii.

"And here, it's the foliage that's hot," Ms. Miller said, pointing to a mustard yellow chamaecyparis planted next to a bright green euphorbia.

Genetic evidence, published by Gadek et al. (2000), strongly supported its return to Cupressus and exclusion from Chamaecyparis.

This nursery has 2,400 plants, like chamaecyparis trees, hydrangeas, hellebores, gunneras, coleuses and cobra lilies.

Associated plant species include Darlingtonia californica, Helenium bigelovii, and Chamaecyparis lawsoniana.

False Cypress (Chamaecyparis species)

Marbled murrelets also occur in stands dominated by Port-Orford-cedar (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana).

It's easy to confuse a chamaecyparis with a thuja (an arborvitae) - a fast-growing lacy evergreen often used to screen out traffic and the neighbors.

One, a favorite of Ms. Martin's, is a dwarf cypress, Chamaecyparis obtusa Nana.

I have another favorite seat far across the meadow: a black octagonal bench inside a purple octagonal gazebo hidden behind a tall, fat chamaecyparis.

The larvae feed on Juniperus communis, Thuja, Chamaecyparis and Leylandcipres.

Genetically Fokienia is much closer to Chamaecyparis, and not all researchers recognize Fokienia as a separate genus.

This raised evergreen garden carefully combines species of hemlock, procumbens juniper, threadleaf chamaecyparis and dwarf mugho pine.

Two five-foot high Chamaecyparis pisifera Squarrosa Intermedia stand sentinel on either side of the gazebo.

The related Chamaecyparis pisifera (Sawara Cypress) can be readily distinguished in its having pointed tips to the leaves and smaller cones.

A similar cypress found on Taiwan is treated by different botanists as either a variety of this species (as Chamaecyparis obtusa var.