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Pitys witham is a 320-year-old fossil plant.

A specimen on display in the Fossil Garden at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is Scotland's largest fossil. It is one of two specimens found near Edinburgh, Scotland, in the sandstones of the Craigleith quarry from which much of the city was built. The quarry has been infilled and lies beneath the Craigleith district of the city.

A number of cases have been found of cupules occurring in clusters at the ends of branching axes.

some Mississippian-aged forms (e.g. Pitys) had substantial secondary wood and was probably the trunk of a large tree.