Himalayan cypress Torulosa (lat. Cupressus torulosa)
The tree is usually 15–25 meters high and up to 1 meter in diameter with a wide pyramidal crown of horizontally spreading or rising branches with numerous rounded tetrahedral shoots hanging at the ends, placed in the same plane.
Young shoots are yellowish-green, then reddish-brown, with bark 0.6–4.25 cm thick, rough, separated by longitudinal narrow plates, gray on the outside, brownish-reddish in depth. The leaves are scaly, obtuse, with a resinous gland on the back, dark green, shiny, tightly pressed to the shoots; the outer side of the shoots with leaves is somewhat oval-convex. Blooms in March - April.
Male spikelets are cylindrical, 5–6 mm long, 8–12 pairs of stamens; the latter are oval, at first brown with dark purple dots and a lighter edge, then black-violet, with 3–4 anthers each, female spikelets are round, 3.5–5.5 mm in diameter, with bluish or blackish scales, white along the edge. The cones are crowded, less often single or somewhat elongated, 12–20 mm long and 10–18 mm wide, immature - green with a bluish coating, mature - reddish-brown or gray; scales are 4-6-angled, strongly wrinkled on the outside, depressed in the middle and with a short curved tip that remains green for a long time, numbering 8-12 (14). They ripen by the autumn of the second year.
It tolerates drought well and loves the sun. Unpretentious, it is advisable to provide sandy soil for good drainage, a bright place.