Monterey Cypress (Hesperocyparis macrocarpa)
The Lone Cypress has clung to its granite perch on the 17-Mile Drive for well over 250 years, guy-wired against the wind since the 1940s and one of California’s most photographed trees.
The species is native only to two tiny remnant groves on the Monterey Peninsula, making these wild stands rarer in habitat than they appear in the landscaped world.