| Scientific Name: | Chamaecyparis obtusa cvs. |
| Common Name: | Hinoki false cypress |
| Family Name: | Cupressaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 3 - 5m x 2 - 3m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Dense, Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - narrowly |
| Texture: | Medium - fine |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Mixed shrub border, Rock garden, Small garden/space, Specimen plant |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Scale-like, Opposite, Imbricate, Leathery, Lustrous, Rhomboidal, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Orange, Red, Brown, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Brown, Sep-Oct, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Pyramidal habit with flattened branchlets, locally slow growing cultivars are mostly <4m tall (species can grow >30m tall in wild); leaves scale-like, 2-4mm long, tip blunt, greenish above, with a white stomatal band at the base of each scale-leaf on lower surface; pollen cones at tips, orange-brown, spherical, 1-2mm long; seed cones globose, 8-12mm wide, 8-10(-12) scales arranged in opposite pairs; seeds about 3mm long with wing 4mm wide. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/cu/Chamaecyparis_obtusa.php' target='_blank'>Conifers.org</a> | |