Cypress Provence EO Organic
Origin: France

Cupressus sempervirens

Native to Asia, this tree with grey-brown bark has very small, dark green leaves with blunt tips in irregular twigs and flowers in small groups at the end of the twigs. The fruit is an ovoid cone that is green and then brown when ripe with clasping scales.

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Sent the : 4/29/25

Product range : Essential Oils

Process : Water steam distillation process

Part used : Leaves, Branches

Aspect : Transparent

Color : Yellow Yellow Light

Olfactive family : Woody

Application : Aromatherapy, Fragrance

Geographical origin : France

Certifications : Kosher

Details and product description
Introduction:
This Great Cypress, widespread in the South, is never found wild in France. There are two forms : - One with spread branches ( horizontalis form) - The other in a column shape ( pyramidalis form), which is sometimes very narrow ( stricta form). Its height does not exceed twenty meters. It has a very characteristic conic and tapering form. It is covered by a fibrous bark, which is slightly fluted and reddish-grey coloured. Its root system is well developed. The dark green leaves, triangular scale-shaped, are small, but so tightly packed next to one another that they hide the short small branch which bears them. The flowers that appear early in spring are unisexual, male elements and female elements coexisting on the same individual. The first grouped together in short terminal cones, yellow-coloured. The second assembled in more globulous cones that are grey-green coloured. The frutescence (set of fertilized ovules and the scales protecting them), called "galbule" or cypress nuts, contain winged seeds and appear after 2 years in autumn. The globulous nuts are green when young, then turn brown and lignous. In spite of a slow growth, the green cypress is a high value species of forest tree. It has hard, compact and resinous wood, offers notable resistance to atmospheric agents and insect attack. It can live for 1,000 years. Other varieties : - Cupressus arizonica GR. (Smooth Arizona cypress) - Cupressus lusitanica (Kenian cypress) - Callistris intratropica (Australian cypress)
History:
Cypress is the symbol of the eternity. Egyptian use of the wood to make the sarcophagi for mummies because it was almost immune to rot. In China, this mystic tree was thought to take its place in the centre of the universe. Cypresses and pines are planted on graves to give strength to the soul of the dead and to save their body from corruption. In an Assyrian writing dating 15th B.C., Cypress is described as a remedy for pains and itching. Green cypress ( Cupressus sempervirens ), is common in the Mediterranean region, where it was spread by the Roman expansion. Cypress wood is practically rot-resistant. It was used by the Egyptians to make the sarcophaguses for mummies. There are many varieties of Green Cypress. One of them ( C. sempervirens var. pyramidalis ), called Male Cypress (wrongly, because each tree bears, male and female flowers), is used as an ornamental plant in parks and particularly in cemeteries, linking a connotation of sadness and mourning to its name.