Cypress is the general name of Cupressaceae plants, including Platycladus orientalis, Sabina vulgaris, Platycladus orientalis, Cupressus orientalis and other genera. The cypress has dense branches, many twigs and dense branches. The crown of cypress is completely surrounded by branches and leaves, and the other side can't be seen from one side, mostly dark green cones.

The bark is reddish brown and longitudinally cracked. Branchlets are flat. The leaves are scaly and small. Monoecious or dioecious, with a single cone crown. Cones are almost ovoid. Seeds ovoid, wingless.

Cypress is an evergreen tree or shrub. Leaves opposite or 3-4 whorls, sparsely inserted spirally, scaly or spiny, or the same tree has two types of leaves. Cones are unisexual, monoecious or dioecious, solitary branches or leaf axils; Male cones have 3-8 pairs of cross-opposite stamens, each stamen has 2-6 anthers, and the pollen has no air sac.

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The origin of the name "cypress"

Cyperaceae, whose scientific name is cypress, comes from Zyparissias. In Greek mythology, there was a boy named Separis who liked riding horses and hunting. He was heartbroken when he shot a deer by mistake while hunting.

So eros, the god of love, suggested that the general god should turn cypress into "cypress", which would not let him die, but also make him sad for life. The name "cypress" evolved from the name of a teenager, and "cypress" became a symbol of sadness and mourning.

Cypress is brave, strong and tall in the cold snow, which is the length of a hundred trees and will always be a symbol of justice, nobility, longevity and immortality. Cypress is an emotional carrier of sadness and mourning abroad, so cypress always appears in the cemetery.

Coffins in ancient Rome were usually made of cypress trees. Greeks and Romans used to put cypress branches in the coffins of the dead. China people planted cypress trees on the graves and graves of the deceased in order to let them "sleep in peace".

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