Mediterranean cypress (Cupressus sempervirens) OR Not?

I dug up this tree last weekend.
I think it is Cupressus sempervirens, but I am not sure as I have no experience with this species.
Can anyone identify it accuretely looking at the following pics:




here is a close-up:

The foliage looks like juniper.

Jkd2572 wrote:The foliage looks like juniper.

Yes, but it also looks like Cupressus sempervirens

I'd say it's Cypress, but I'm not a cypress guy.

Well, it does look a little like juniper, since they are in the same family. This could very well be Cupressus sempervirens var. horizontalis, the wild form. The Italian cypress we usually see is the variety stricta, the cultivated form. Compare yours with pictures on the Web, or with a known specimen.
Iris

Thanks for your replies.
Actually one of my friends claims it is a juniper, but there are some others who claim it is a cypress.
I will google it more...

Sakaki wrote:
Actually one of my friends claims it is a juniper, but there are some others who claim it is a cypress.

Let it grow in the ground until it cones.
Iris

bonsaisr wrote:

Sakaki wrote:
Actually one of my friends claims it is a juniper, but there are some others who claim it is a cypress.

Let it grow in the ground until it cones.
Iris

Yes, sounds logical
Thank you for your inputs Iris!

Nevertheless I stopped by a nursery yesterday afternoon, and examined both junipers and cypresses closely by comparing their leaves to a leaf taken from my tree.
It seems that my tree is definitely a cypress because the matched tree has these cones: