Mexican Cypress; [Cipres (Latin America)].        ku-PRES-us lu-si-TAN-i-ka

• Evergreen tree, large, to about 100 ft (30 m), wide spreading, branches nodding at tips, stem red brown, bark longitudinally grooved.  Leaves blue-green, in 4 rows, ovate, densely appressed, usually with long sharp pointed tips.  Fruit (cones) globose, about 12 mm wide, short stalked, 6-8 scales, with a stout, recurved thorn in the center.
• Sun.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 7      Native to Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, not from Portugal as the name lusitanica suggests.
• lusitanica: of Portugal (Lusitanica)...but see above.