Murray river cypress pine

Description

Callitris glaucophylla grows as an evergreen , single-breeding shrub or tree that can reach heights up to 30 meters and a breaching height of nearly 1 meter. The branches go straight or upright, occasionally hanging from the trunk. The blue-green to gray-green shed leaves stand in threesomes , more rarely also in four- or five-whorls at the branches. Young leaves are 7 to 8 millimeters long and older leaves are 1 to 3 millimeters long. The blade tip is tapered and the blade rear side is not keeled. The individual male flower pips are elongated-cylindrical to cylindrical in length of 5 to 10 millimeters and thickness of 2 to 5 millimeters. The scattered on the branches female pins have a 0.7 to 0.8 centimeter long stem and are egg-shaped flattened to a diameter of 1.2 to 2.5 centimeters spherical. To maturity, they turn dark brown. Each spigot contains six thin cones of shoots and several seed grains. The seeds are already released shortly after maturity and most of the cones then fall off the branches. The maroon seeds are 4 to 5 millimeters in size and have two or three wings.