Saru / Italian Cypress
Cupressus sempervirens
- Habit
- Tree
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Uttarakhand
How to identify Saru
Identify Saru 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: Narrow columnar habit (Italian cypress).
- Confirm leaf shape: Orbicular.
- In India, compare location records such as Maharashtra, Uttarakhand.
- Confirm it sits within the Cupressaceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Saru.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cupressus sempervirens
- Genus
- Cupressus
- Family
- Cupressaceae
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Planted
- Habitat type
- Cultivated
- Native to
- S. Europe, West Asia
- Found in India
- Maharashtra, Uttarakhand
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf shape
- OrbicularrecordedRounded, roughly circular.“The leaves are scale-like, 2–5 mm long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Characters marked “recorded” are for Saru 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.
Local Names
- Tamil
- Churam
- Telugu
- Jeedakara, Jeekaka, Jeelakarra
- Malayalam
- Churam, sooram
- Marathi
- saru
About Saru
A member of the Cupressaceae family, Italian Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) is a tree. In India it has been recorded in Maharashtra and Uttarakhand. It is planted.
Uses
In practice it is long used in traditional medicine, planted as an ornamental and tapped for gum or resin. Those medicinal uses are traditional attributions, not medical advice.
In culture
It is treated as sacred and appears in worship and turns up in ritual and festival use.
Cupressaceae
Cypress Family
Saru belongs to the Cupressaceae family.
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