Cypress tree of Kathikas

 

Cypress in Kathikas
(Cupressus sempervirens)

With a girth at breast height of 4.35 m and 14 m in height, this tree is approximately 700 years old. This is an evergreen tree with  a broad or narrowly conical crown and a grey bark lightly fissured. It has small
scale-like leaves arranged in opposite decussate pairs. It is native to Cyprus and often found in calcareous precipices and slopes in many places of the island and mainly in the Pentadaktylos massif. In 2017 it was declared protected.