Cypress blooms in Carolina

The Cypress blooms in Carolina about the first of February. The male and female flowers are borne separately, by the same tree; the first in flexible pendulous aments, and the second in bunches, scarcely apparent. The cones are about as large as the thumb, hard, round, of an uneven surface, and stored with small, irregular, ligneous seeds, containing a cylindrical kernel; they are ripe in October, and retain their productive virtue for two years.* (* N. A. Sylva. ii. 332.)