Some photos of a relatively little-known cypress from a county known more for it's rich people, golf courses, and wine than for it is for it's astonishingly beautiful and endemic plant species and champion ultramafic affiliations...
Let's start off with some up-close photos of the heavy resin glands. You can smell this cypress from yards away...
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
The full form of this species quite different from any of the other cypresses, it is not conical and certainly not symmetrical, rather is more like a rocky mountain juniper, sprawling, low and tends to go all over the place. I have never seen trees taller than 30 or 40 feet, and even THAT is pushing it...
Anybody have any idea how this species performs in Britain, or in areas with humid, hot summers.... not well I am guessing?
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
Serotinous, fire-adapted cones...
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
Arctostaphylos...this genus contains over 96 taxa, most of which are endemic to California, fire-dependent, associated with serpentine and ultramafic soils, and many of which are rare/threatened/restricted in distribution. I am not sure of this species, but in traveling to many of the Cypress groves I normally find that there is also Arctostaphylos (manzanita) growing there as well.
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
The typical sparse understory of the Mcnab Cypress woodland...
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
Mcnab Cypress on the ridge in foreground, Pinus attenuata (knobcone pine, fire adapted) in the background.
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
Weathered tree.
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
Sparse canopy and mistletoes...
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
Juvenile tree...
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
Arctostaphylos replenishing it's soil seed-bank of fire-dependent seed.
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
Pinus attenuata...
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
More Young trees...
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Dudleya, another genus big in California...
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
Aesculus california shootin the moon...
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
Old, weathered Arctostaphylos..
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
Scrub Oak...
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
Volcanics...
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
One cannot talk about Cypresses without talking about the Lichens that are usually found growing on them...
From Cupressus macnabiana Napa
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