October 27th Photograph Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana Scotland

October 27th Photograph of a Chamaecyparis Lawsoniana at Glendoick Garden Centre, Perthshire, Scotland. This cypress tree is actually native to the southwest of Oregon and the far northwest of California in the United States. It was introduced into cultivation in 1854, by collectors working for the Lawson and Son nursery in Edinburgh, Scotland, after whom it was named as Lawson's Cypress by the describing botanist Andrew Murray.

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