What kind of cypress is this, if at all?

[oldwoodcutter]

Red fir

[green heart]

Looks very like Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria hetrophylla) to me...not quite your average saw-log !

[Big J]

Definitely not a fir or the Norfolk island pine. To look at the saw log side on, you'd swear it was western red cedar

 

[Yournamehere]

13 hours ago, Will Heal said:

May be coast redwood, I cut one down a few weeks ago, looks very similar

 

It does indeed. The juvenile/ top growth off a coast redwood is almost indistinguishable from a cryptomaria but the cones of the coast redwood are like a large alder catkin whereas the cones of the cryptomaria are like those in the photographs.

At Polecat Valley at Haslemere in Surrey there is a grove of giant redwoods - Wellies and Coast redwoods (amongst the tallest trees in surrey - there's a contour on the 2 1/2 inch O.S. map right by the side of the road where they stand and a spot-height at the junction up the hill from which, with an inclinometer, you get a 1-2 degree elevation standing on a six foot bank which makes them at least 43m or 140+ feet high) and around and about giant hemlocks and silver firs and over the hill monkey puzzlers (hindhead road outside what was olivetti is now Jamia Ahmadya; look up) and vars other, (a magnificent blue cedar totally hidden) all part of a planting from when it was part of the old Frensham Hall old estate.

I went for a walk down through there one time after a storm - the ground was littered with walnuts! - which turned out to be cones from the wellingtonia - and picked up a sprig (of juvenile coast redwood) and checked every tree looking for a cryptomaria!

Have a look in Alan Mitchell's majesterial Conifers of the British Isles, there's some pics and descriptions in there.

That sprig is still on my kitchen windowsill and still with the alder catkin like cones although brown now rather than green.

Incidently some time back now someone did a 'what is this' - I'm sure it was on here - of a large alder catkin looking coney thing, I couldn't get back to it at the time, but yep! that was a coast redwood cone.

I seem to have wandered from the point!

Happy days

Yourn

[Yournamehere]

Sorry; ^^ alder fruit, not catkins.

[lux]

It does indeed. The juvenile/ top growth off a coast redwood is almost indistinguishable from a cryptomaria but the cones of the coast redwood are like a large alder catkin whereas the cones of the cryptomaria are like those in the photographs.
At Polecat Valley at Haslemere in Surrey there is a grove of giant redwoods - Wellies and Coast redwoods (amongst the tallest trees in surrey - there's a contour on the 2 1/2 inch O.S. map right by the side of the road where they stand and a spot-height at the junction up the hill from which, with an inclinometer, you get a 1-2 degree elevation standing on a six foot bank which makes them at least 43m or 140+ feet high) and around and about giant hemlocks and silver firs and over the hill monkey puzzlers (hindhead road outside what was olivetti is now Jamia Ahmadya; look up) and vars other, (a magnificent blue cedar totally hidden) all part of a planting from when it was part of the old Frensham Hall old estate.
I went for a walk down through there one time after a storm - the ground was littered with walnuts! - which turned out to be cones from the wellingtonia - and picked up a sprig (of juvenile coast redwood) and checked every tree looking for a cryptomaria!
Have a look in Alan Mitchell's majesterial Conifers of the British Isles, there's some pics and descriptions in there.
That sprig is still on my kitchen windowsill and still with the alder catkin like cones although brown now rather than green.
Incidently some time back now someone did a 'what is this' - I'm sure it was on here - of a large alder catkin looking coney thing, I couldn't get back to it at the time, but yep! that was a coast redwood cone.
I seem to have wandered from the point!
Happy days
Yourn

Some very nice trees in that patch. Some milled timber from a large wellie up there is now put to good use in my garden.