| Scientific Name: | Chamaecyparis pisifera |
| Common Name: | false cypress, sawara cypress |
| Family Name: | Cupressaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 15 - 25m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Irregular |
| Form: | Irregular, Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Hedge row, Screening |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Scale-like, Opposite, Imbricate, Leathery, Prickly, Glabrous, Glaucous, Acicular, Rhomboidal, Other, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Brown, Black, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Green, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Shaggy growth habit, 15-22(-50)m tall (most cultivars 2-10m tall in 15 years); juvenile leaves acicular, 6mm long, spreading in 4 rows, blue-green, whitish beneath; mature leaves scale-like, 3mm long, sharp-pointed, overlapping, opposite in 4 rows, top pair flattened, side pair keeled, each scale smoothly rounded and minutely mucronate; seed cones on short stalks, round, ruffled (like a pea seed), 5-8mm wide with 8-10(-12) scales with small pointed tips, green, maturing brown in fall; seeds 1-2 beaneath each scale; seeds ~2mm long plus ~4mm long wing. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/cu/Chamaecyparis_pisifera.php' target='_blank'>Conifers.org</a> | |