This lone warrior seems to grow right out of the rock along the coast of California. Name this intrepid tree.

This Monterey Cypress is a very common sighting is Central coastal California. On the Monterey peninsula, where these trees are native, some individual trees have survived hundreds of years, protected from hot weather by coastal fog and whipped by the ocean wind into some truly bizarre shapes.

Asked by Tom Cohen · Last updated 5 years ago · 3K views