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geneso Seattle, WA Feb 14, 2009

Hello,
I am much impressed with the size attained by the tree that is a natural croos between the leyland cypress and the alaskan yellow cedar called X cupressocyparis lelandii, commonly known as the leland cypress.

Would it grow at 6,500 feet in alkaline coil with 12-14 inches of rainfall a year. Would it flourish?

Thanks,

Geneso

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Resin Northumberland, United Kingdom(Zone 9a) Feb 14, 2009

Spellcheck: leylandii; Leyland Cypress. It is a hybrid between Nootka Cypress (Cupressus nootkatensis, formerly Chamaecyparis nootkatensis), and Monterey Cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa). Sorry, no, it won't like the conditions you describe.

Resin

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gooley Hawthorne, FL(Zone 8b) Feb 26, 2009

Leyland cypress is ubiquitous and robust here, a hundred feet above sea level, zone 8b, hot damp wet summers and dry occasionally-frosty winters. With acid soil void of nutrients apart from phosphate, too. A nursery I visited near here ten years ago had ten thousand of them in pots -- they grew nothing else -- and was tolerably profitable, but they are out of fashion now.

Alkaline soil and altitude and so little rainfall... must agree with Resin. No. Maybe I just don't appreciate that tree because it is common here to the point of banality.

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