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15 unusual facts about cypress


Anaheim Union High School District

The Anaheim Union High School District (AUHSD) is a public school district serving portions of the Orange County cities of Anaheim, Buena Park, Cypress, La Palma, and Stanton.

Carrier Mills, Illinois

Carrier's Mills was the farthest north Cypress Trees grew at the time, which made lumber milling in the town quite profitable.

Chiney Ogwumike

She attended Cypress Fairbanks High School in Cypress, Texas, winning the 5A State Championship in her sophomore and senior seasons.

Cypress

The word cypress is also used as a descriptor for the angiosperm vine in the bindweed family Convolvulaceae, known as the cypress vine (Ipomoea quamoclit).

Don Nottebart

Don Nottebart died at age 71 on October 4, 2007 while visiting his daughter in Cypress, Texas.

Honolulu Pegasus

On May 17, 2010, it was announced that the owners of the team would relocate the club to Cypress, Texas due to travel problems while based in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Ivan Kakovitch

Residing in Cypress, California, Ivan finally finished writing the story he was obsessed with from birth, writing the novel Mount Semele in 2001.

K. C. John

It broadcasts in 52 countries all over Asia from Cypress on the West to Indonesia on the East, and every nation in between, PowerVision TV reaches almost every Islamic state as well as Tibet, China.

Lake Blackshear

While this was true for many of the trees, there are still many living Cypress trees in the middle of the lake and there are still many dead trees that have not fallen down.

Lakeview, Illinois

Lakeview was originally called "The Pond Settlement" It was named after the Cypress swampland and wetlands that surrounds the area of Carrier Mills.

Los Alamitos Race Course

Los Alamitos Race Course is a horse racing track in Cypress, California.

Nneka Ogwumike

She attended Cypress Fairbanks High School in Cypress, Texas and led them to a 5A State Championship in her senior season.

PacifiCare Health Systems

PacifiCare Health Systems (former NYSE symbol PHS) was a Fortune 500 healthcare company based in Cypress, California.

Place Carnot

The Square has an area of 11,000 square meters, and consists mainly of Plane Trees, with Cypresses and Holly Oaks on the Southern side.

Savanna School District

Savanna School District is an elementary school district in Anaheim, California that also serves a small portion of Buena Park, Cypress and Stanton.


2011 CME Group Titleholders

It was played November 17–20, 2011 at the Grand Cypress Golf Club in Orlando, Florida.

Afforestation in Japan

The dominant tree species planted are Japanese cedar (Cryptomeria japonica) and Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa).

Arbor vitae

Arborvitae, Thuja, a genus of coniferous trees in the cypress family

Argyresthia thuiella

The larvae feed on the leaves of Thuja occidentalis as well as other Arborvitae and False Cypress (Chamaecyparis) species.

Bird-voiced tree frog

Its favored habitat is wooded swamps near streams and rivers where the dominant species include cypress, birch, tupelo, and buttonbush.

Bog-wood

Bog-wood may come from any tree species naturally growing near or in bogs, including oak (Quercus – "bog oak"), pine (Pinus), yew (Taxus), swamp cypress (Taxodium) and kauri (Agathis).

Cheveley

There are two Jacobean chairs, and a richly inlaid one of cypress wood, the seat opening to form a chest; it is thought to be the throne of a Venetian Doge of the 14th century.

Church of Rilán

The current church was built early in the 19th century from coigue and cypress wood and is lined with alerce, cypress and mañio.

Cleyera japonica

Sakaki is considered a sacred tree in the Shinto religion along with other evergreens such as hinoki 檜 "Japanese cypress" and kansugi 神杉 "sacred cryptomeria".

Clyne Gardens

Glynn Vivian planted three notable trees still alive in front of the castle - one Wellingtonia 'Sequoiadendron giganteum' and two Monterey Cypress 'Cupressus macrocarpa', one a fastigiate form which is also one of the tallest recorded in Britain.

Coffin

In China and Japan, coffins made from the scented, decay-resistant wood of cypress, sugi, thuja and incense-cedar are in high demand.

Cupressus

Cupressus chengiana (Cheng's cypress) - Conservation status: Vulnerable

Cupressus macrocarpa

The native range of the species was confined to two small relict populations, at Cypress Point in Pebble Beach and at Point Lobos near Carmel, California.

Cupressus nootkatensis

More recently, Farjon et al. (2002) transferred it to a new genus Xanthocyparis, together with the newly discovered Vietnamese Golden Cypress Xanthocyparis vietnamensis; this species is remarkably similar to Nootka Cypress and the treatment has many arguments in its favour, as while they are not related to Chamaecyparis, neither do they fit fully in Cupressus despite the many similarities.

Cypress County, Alberta

Cypress County is served by the Federal Electoral Division of Medicine Hat and represented in the Canadian House of Commons by Conservative MP LaVar Payne.

Cypress Hills massacre

The Cypress Hills Massacre is also used as the plot centrepiece for the Terrance Dicks novel Massacre In the Hills which charts the beginning of the NWMP.

Cypress Lake High School

Charles Ghigna - poet and children's author known as "Father Goose;" taught English at Cypress Lake High School, 1967–1973

Cypress Records

Cypress Records is a record label which was distributed by A&M Records between 1988 and 1990.

Cypress Street Viaduct

After the viaduct was torn down, Cypress Street was renamed Mandela Parkway, in honor of Nelson Mandela, and a landscaped median strip was planted where the viaduct once stood.

Dick Pope

Dick Pope, Sr. (1900–1988), founder of Cypress Gardens in Winter Haven, Florida; Waterskiing Hall of Fame inductee

Garden Grove Unified School District

GGUSD's enrollment boundaries allow the district to serve students in many central and northern Orange County communities, including: Anaheim, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, Stanton, and Westminster

George A. Blair

Cypress Gardens A special tribute was held at Cypress Gardens on March 30, 2008

Harry W. Musselwhite

He died in San Lorenzo, California and is interred on the other side of the state in Cypress Lawn Cemetery of Coloma.

HyperSPARC

When Fujitsu acquired Ross from Cypress, the hyperSPARC was considered to be more important by its new owner than the SPARC64 developed by HAL Computer Systems, also a Fujitsu subsidiary, a view which was shared with analysts.

Joint Expeditionary Base East

The base includes 1,451 acres (5.9 km²) of sandy trails, cypress swamps, grassy dunes and soft and hard sand beaches.

Kiss the Crystal Flake

Time-Sick Son of a Grizzly Bear also includes a reference to the infamous Mexican patriot/bandit Joaquin Murrieta with the lyrics: "Were you out in Monterey/ In Joaquin Murrieta's day/ Adobe huts in the cypress groves/ Is where the rich man now builds his homes".

La Moneda Palace

Works on the building started in 1784, with building materials arriving the following year from around Chile and the world: limestone from the Polpaico country estate; sand from the Maipo River; red stones from a quarry at the Cerro San Cristóbal in Santiago; white stone from the neighbouring Cerro Blanco; oak and cypress wood from Valdivia; Spanish metal works from Vizcaya.

Madeleine Cemetery

Desclozeaux had taken note of the sites where the King and Queen were buried and reputedly surrounded them with a hedge, two weeping willows, and cypress trees.

Master of the Cypresses

He received his name from his frequent use of cypress trees in miniatures painted for Seville Cathedral choirbooks.

Mobile-Tensaw River Delta

The delta is ecologically important and includes a wide variety of habitats, including Mesic flood plains, cypress-gum swamps, tidal brackish water marshes, bottomland forests and submersed grassbeds.

Northeast Cape Fear River

The river and its valley are home to a variety of interesting and uncommon flora and fauna, including the palmetto, cypress, alligator, pileated woodpecker and bowfin.

Oka cheese

The cheese rounds are placed on cypress slats and the cheeses are periodically turned and hand washed in a weak brine solution.

Pine–cypress forest

Many of the Florida occurrences of pine–cypress forest are in swampy areas such as the Everglades.

Sen Dog

On September 30, 2008, Sen Dog released his first solo album, Diary of a Mad Dog, seventeen years after the release of the first Cypress Hill album.

Stuart Richardson House

An oasis in the middle of a suburban landscape of Glen Ridge, the house was constructed of red brick, cypress wood, red concrete mat and glass.

Taxodium distichum

Insects such as the cypress flea beetle and the bald cypress leafroller (Archips goyerana) (closely related to the fruit tree leafroller) can seriously damage trees by destroying leaves, cones or the bark.

Tresco Abbey Gardens

The first were mainly deciduous trees such as, elm (Ulmus sp), sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus), oak (Rubus sp) and poplar (Poplar sp), and later he planted Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) and Monterey pine (Pinus radiata) which are fast growing and suited to coastal conditions.

Tuscumbia River

It flows through Alcorn County, then into McNairy County, Tennessee, where it is joined by a major tributary, Cypress Creek, and then flows into the Hatchie River, just before it reaches Hardeman County, near Pocahontas, Tennessee.

U.S. Route 17 in Florida

Descending as it passes the Chain O' Lakes Sports Complex, SR 540 leaves US 17 at Cypress Gardens Boulevard to continue eastward, but this intersection is also for Southwest Avenue R, which also leads to Winter Haven Station.

Venustiano Carranza, D.F.

In the parks and other green spaces of the borough, trees such as ash, white cedar, cypress, fig and Indian laurel, various scrubs and grasses can be found.

Virginia, County Cavan

Playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan was Thomas's grandson, while othor reputable Virginian's from the nineteenth century were Thomas Fitzpatrick a noted London physician, and entrepreneur Joseph Rathborne the son of local mill owner Henry Talbot Rathborne, Joseph went to America and created the world's biggest lumber mill with the Rathborne Cypress Lumber Company in Louisiana.

Wayne Township, Bollinger County, Missouri

Other bodies of water located in the township include the Castor River, Cypress Pond, the Headwater Diversion Channel, and Wonder (Sherman's) Lake.