Mourning Cypress
Cupressus funebris
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand
How to identify Mourning Cypress
Identify Mourning Cypress by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Look for a tree habit.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Drooping weeping branchlets (mourning cypress).
- Confirm leaf shape: Linear.
- In India, compare location records such as Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand.
- Confirm it sits within the Cupressaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Mourning Cypress.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cupressus funebris
- Genus
- Cupressus
- Family
- Cupressaceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Planted
- Habitat type
- Cultivated
- Native to
- China
- Found in India
- Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- LinearrecordedVery long and narrow with roughly parallel sides.“young trees up to about 5–10 years old have juvenile foliage with soft needle-like leaves 3–8 mm long.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Characters marked “recorded” are for Mourning Cypress itself; the rest are typical of the Cupressaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Fruit
- Berry
Typical of the Cupressaceae family — flowering plants only; individual species can differ.
About Mourning Cypress
A member of the Cupressaceae family, Mourning Cypress (Cupressus funebris) is a tree. In India it has been recorded in Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. It is planted.
Cupressaceae
Cypress Family
Mourning Cypress belongs to the Cupressaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
Explore the Cupressaceae familySnap it. Know it.
Point your camera at Mourning Cypress or any plant and SASYA identifies it instantly — on-device, offline, and private.
Common plant problems
If you are starting from symptoms instead of a diagnosis, use the plant disease symptom checker to narrow the cause before treating.
All plant problem & care guides