Monterey cypress has one of the smallest natural ranges of any conifer: two headlands on the California coast near Monterey, a few kilometres of cliff, and nothing else in the wild.
Monterey Cypress
In the wild this tree grows on two headlands near Monterey in California and nowhere else on earth, together covering less than a square kilometre. This page maps every monterey cypress on the site, 4 so far across 4 cities.
Give it a mild wet winter anywhere and it grows fast and enormous, which is how it reached Italian and Portuguese gardens within a few decades of being described. Trieste's stands at Miramare, put in after 1856 when Archduke Maximilian laid out a park around his castle on the sea, and is about 170 years old. Lucca's grows on the San Regolo bastion, part of the ring of Renaissance walls the city turned into a promenade. Florence has one in the Giardino Simone Weil and Lisbon one in the Parque do Caramao da Ajuda, roughly 95 years old. Four trees in four cities, all of them exiles from a coastline you could walk in an afternoon.
Lisbon
Florence
In the wild this species grows on two small headlands in California and nowhere else on earth.
Trieste
In the wild this species survives in two groves on the California coast, together covering less than a square kilometre, and it is listed as threatened.
Lucca
In the wild this species grows in two small groves on a single stretch of Californian coast near Monterey and nowhere else on earth.
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