Is #1 Calocedrus formosana?

I guess that's a no since you are still posting? You've just pointed out that C. decurrens survives further south than I'd imagine, so perhaps it's that one.

Good guess! Keep trying - you are close, but not the right genus yet.

Haha...ok...now I do look stupid! As an adult, I'm willing to admit when I'm wrong. The foliage looked superficially right to me, but obviously not.

Conifers are not my favorite plant group actually: I just find that this forum has historically had some of the best discussion.

Fokienia, and then I'm really giving up.

Is #1 Fokienia hodginsii?

Is #2 Abies firma or a Keteleeria?

Is #3 Callitris sp.?

-Sam

#1 is Fokienia - you both got it.
#2 Sam, you're right - Keteleeria evelyniana
#3 is Callitris glaucophylla

Thanks for showing these pictures. I really like the Keteleeria evelyniana in particular.
Richard

Interesting pics of rare conifers.

Thanks!

Wolfgang

"Is #1 Fokienia hodginsii?"

Now Chamaecyparis hodginsii (Dunn) Rushforth - its exclusion from Chamaecyparis leaves that genus paraphyletic (Chamaecyparis obtusa is more closely related to Chamaecyparis hodginsii than it is to Chamaecyparis pisifera).

Resin

Ah, I had forgotten that. I will need to re-label mine. Thanks.

Just a thought - sure those are Callitris glaucophylla? They're not glaucous, which that species (if accepted as distinct from C. columellaris) is.

Resin

You are right again - I usually lump them under columellaris, but mixed them in my head. C. columellaris is naturalized here and is always green. There are a few true glaucophylla (if you consider it distinct), but only planted more recently and in botanical gardens in Miami and near Tampa.