1. cypress leaf is round and saturated. Also, you can tell them from their colors. cypress leaf's color is very clear and crisp, which is the kind of authentic green color at first glance.

2. Platycladus orientalis, feeling crushed. The color of Platycladus orientalis leaves is darker, and the color is particularly deep. It is not that kind of green, but there is a deep green in it.

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Cupressaceae is the family with the largest number of genera in gymnosperms. Evergreen trees or shrubs. There is resin. Leaves opposite or whorled, often scaly and downward, sparsely linear; The cones are small, unisexual or heterophytic, terminal or axillary; Male cones have 3-8 pairs of opposite stamens, each stamen has 2-6 anthers, and the pollen has no air sac.

The female flower is composed of 3-16 cross-opposite or 3-4 whorled bulbils (megaspore leaves), each bulbil has 1-several ovules, and the bract scales are combined with the bulbils. The cone is spherical, ovoid or oblong. When it matures, the pearl scales develop into seed scales, which are woody or leathery, and crack when it matures, or sometimes it is berry-like, and does not crack. There are more than one seed at the base of each scale.

the seeds have wings or not; 2 cotyledons, few. There are about 22 genera of Cupressaceae, half of which are produced in the northern and southern hemispheres; The number of species is second only to Pinaceae, with nearly 15 species, which are distributed all over the world several times. Some species are main forest species or important afforestation species, or landscaping species. Representative plants: Platycladus orientalis, Sabina vulgaris, Sabina vulgaris and Sabina vulgaris.

Cypress: Calocedrus Kurz? Cedar, Cupressaceae, 2 species, 1 variety, North America and South Asia, China has one species and one variety of Cedar C. macrolepis Kurz and Taiwan Province Cedar C. Macrolepis Var. Formosana (Florin) Cheng et L.K.Fu, and it is produced in Southwest China, South China and Taiwan Province. Evergreen trees.

The branchlets are densely covered with alternate scales, which are flat and spreading. The scales on the back of the branchlets have ridges and white stomatal lines, and a pair of scales on the side are folded in half. Cones are monoecious, with solitary branches at the top; The male cone has 6-8 pairs of opposite stamens, each stamen has 2-5 pendulous anthers, and the connective is nearly peltate.

The female cone flower has 3 pairs of opposite scales, and only the middle pair of scales has 2 ovules. The cone is long and round, and when it matures, the bead scales develop into seed scales, which are woody and flat, with short tips under the external top and cracks. The top pair of seed scales are combined and the base is small. The upper part of the seed has 1 long and 1 short wing; 2 cotyledons.

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