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Chamaecyparis
obtusa |
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Hinoki False
Cypress |
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  4
to 8 |
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Japan
and Taiwan |
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Broadly pyramidal in outline slow growing
evergreen tree |
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50 to 75 feet in height with a 10 to 20 feet spread. |
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monoecious
with staminate yellow flowers and solitary pistillate
flowers. |
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Dark, glossy, green, scalelike leaves |
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Flattened, slightly
drooping at the tips. |
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Cones are
short-stalked, solitary and orange-brown in
color. |
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'Breviramea' - narrow, pyramidal form and
short branches
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'Compacta' - dwarf but broadly conical form.
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'Coralliformis' - reddish, contorted branchiets, a compact little
shrub
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'Crippsii' - slow growing dwarf
form, with rich, golden-yellow foliage
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'Erecta' - fastigiate with ascending branches and
bright green foliage
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'Filicoides'
- dense
habit and slightly twisted, frondlike
branches
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'Gracilis' -
compact pyramidal form with dark green
foliage and slightly pendulous, tipped
branches.
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'Magnifica' - vigorous stout branchlets and
bright green foliage
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'Nana Aurea' -compact
bush with flat top and yellow
foliage
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'Nana Cracilis'
- one of the
smallest of the dwarf conifers only 6 inches
tall and 8 inches wide.
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'Pygmaea' - dwarf with fan-shaped branchlets borne horizontally and foliage a
bronzy green.
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'Sanderi' -this is a low dwarf with dense, heathlike foliage
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'Tetragona Aurea' -
4-sided, thick branches, slow growing,
yellow
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