It is in the family Cupressaceae. Callitris and the cypresses belong to this family. I don’t think it is a cypress, which have much denser growth. A photo of the whole tree would help. The female cones in the family Cupressaceae are on short shoots among the leaves so I suspect this cone or gumnut has been dropped by a bird.
I can see that it is a Cupressus cone that probably fell into the branch join. Based on the cone being round, only having small bumps, the leaves being green and the branchlets growing at different angle I think Cupressus macrocarpa is most likely but don't know the genus very well
Actually - I'm having a lot of trouble editing my sightings to add/delete photos. Wondering if it's teething problems with the upgrade? Will post separately.
The habit does not look right for macrocarpa. Lisa, could you stand at least the height of the tree away from it for a photo, or better, the maximum distance away from it so it still takes up most of the height of your photo, so we can see what the habit (general look of the whole tree including whether the branches go out sideways, down, etc) is.
Thank you for your patience. I've added another photo to 4256782; and this is the same tree as sighting #4250255 - and one other record, which I can't find. I'll try to get a photo as you suggest, but this is a really overgrown area, and this picture was the clearest I could get, by standing pretty much under it.
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