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Cypress

A tall thin dark spire on a short trunk.

About 10 m tall out in the open.

Land How many of the trees
Shrubland About one in three

Trees of a kind keep together in stands about 60 m across.

It keeps its leaves all year.

Its trunk stops men and horses, who go round it. Wildfire leaves it black and bare, and burnt or felled ground grows back over about four years.