I'm looking for a particular tree type and not having any luck. Even the name would be helpful.

It's common in in the Mediterranean region; kind of featured in the classic "Spaghetti Westerns".

It might be some species of pine tree.  Without a closer look at the leaves, it is hard to tell.

Maybe it is the Scotch pine topiary tree.

I'll check that out, but I'm not so sure now it even is a tree.

And I just noticed the kitty.

Gonna ask on another site that has more European users.

it is a yucca or the 100-year tree, on the left coast of the USA, They bloom here every year if there's a lot of water.

So you can find them in the states. Thanks for the lead.

If it's just for the middle-distance, you could probably fake it in 3D with a brown telegraph pole and some grass-clumps.

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Got more info on it:

Its Amerika-agave (Agave americana) is in the family of asparagus plant.

It is a perennial herb with a flower stem up to 7 m high. The leaves sit in a rosette at the margin or on a short stem. The grey-green or blue-green leaves are spear-shaped, 80–200 cm long and 15–25 cm wide. They have a sharp, black thorn at the end, and the leaf margin also has thorns.

And as it happens, I've got that in one of my X-Frog collections.  It's flowering but can hide the blooms, And it will be instanced so I can control where and primarily to break up the horizon.

But I do like your suggestion. ;)

that is right, some types you can make Tequila(blue Agave)