Italian Cypress, Funeral Cypress 'Monshel'

Smaller Italian cypress...easy care.
Discovered in 1991 by nurseryman Doug Zylstra at West Covina Wholesale Nursery, Santa Barbara...Read More, California. A 'Glauca' for the exceptionally dense, narrow columnar form and tight growth habit without pruning.

The Tiny Tower, a compact variety of the Italian Cypress, was more than 10 years in the development stage at Monrovia before it was patented and launched in 2001. One reason was that Monrovia wanted to make sure it would maintain its smaller stature, and seondly, they found it was difficult to propagate. They used their sophisticated tissue culture laboratory to propagate enough for a widespread distribution.