Cypress

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Cypress is the name applied to many of the plants belonging to the cypress family, Cupressaceae, which are conifers. Most cypress species are trees, while a few are shrubs.^[2]

Wandlore[]

Garrick Ollivander noted that cypress wands were associated with nobility. The great medieval wandmaker, Geraint Ollivander, wrote that he was always honoured to match a cypress wand, for he knew he was meeting a witch or wizard who would die a heroic death.^[1]

Fortunately, in these less blood-thirsty times, the possessors of cypress wands were rarely called upon to lay down their lives, though doubtless many of them would do so if required. Wands of cypress found their soul mates among the brave, the bold and the self-sacrificing: those who were unafraid to confront the shadows in their own and others' natures.^[1]