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Cupressus gigantea
Tsangpo cypress (Cupressus gigantea) is a large conifer tree native to southeast Tibet, growing up to about 45 to 50 metres with a very thick trunk. It is a species from a dry, high-altitude valley climate and is rarely grown as an ornamental outside its native range.
Cupressus gigantea, the Tibetan cypress, is a species of conifer in the family Cupressaceae native to southeastern Tibet (Xizang). It has sometimes been classified as a variety of the western Himalayan Cupressus torulosa on the grounds of somewhat similar morphological characteristics, despite its geographical remoteness of over 1,000 km from that species. Recent genetic studies have since confirmed its original status a separate species.
It is endemic to the Nyingchi area in southeast Tibet in China on the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau, particularly in the valleys of the Nyang River and Yarlung Tsangpo River in the dry rain shadow of the northern side of the Himalaya. With its very stout trunk, Cupressus gigantea is the largest, though not the tallest, of all Cupressus species; the latter status goes to the 100 m tall Cupressus austrotibetica in the wetter temperate rainforest regions of the Tsangpo drainage further southeast with greater monsoon influence.
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