Cupressus arizonica

C. arizonica is a medium sized evergreen tree growing 5-25 m tall. It has a conical crown when young, becoming broadly columnar with age. The reddish-brown to gray bark peels in thin strips or plates becoming furrowed with age. C. arizonica var. glabra has smooth bark. Scale-like needles are dusty green to gray green, sometimes silvery, and are arranged opposite in pairs tightly clasping cord-like or four sided twigs. Cones are reddish brown to gray, somewhat round with 6-8 shield-shaped woody scales, 10-25 mm wide (USDA-NRCS, 2006;SEINet, 2017). Seeds are light tan to dark brown, 4-8 mm long (SEINet, 2017).