| Scientific Name: | Cunninghamia lanceolata |
| Common Name: | China fir |
| Family Name: | Cupressaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Conifer |
| Mature Size: | 15 - 22m x 5 - 7m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Irregular, Upright |
| Form: | Pyramidal - widely |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Specimen plant, Tall background, Winter interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Spiraled, Sessile, Leathery, Prickly, Glabrous, Lanceolate, Entire |
| Flowers: | n/a (male cone), Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Cone (winged seeds), Green, Brown, Sep-Oct |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves rigid, densely and spirally arranged, but spreading in 2 ranks, dark green with pale undersides, narrowly lance-shaped or linear (narrower than monkey puzzle leaves), 0.8-6.5(-7)cm x 1.5-5mm, tipped with spine 0.3-2mm long; pollen cones in mostly terminal clusters of 8-25 (occasionally a few also around base of seed cone); narrowly oblong-conical, about 7mm long x 4mm wide; seed cones terminal, 1-4 together, ovoid or subglobose, 2.5-4.5 x 2.5-4cm, bracts with pointed apex; seeds 3 per scale, dark brown, 5-6mm long x about 4mm wide, narrowly winged laterally; seedlings with 2 cotyledons. <a href ='https://www.conifers.org/cu/Cunninghamia_lanceolata.php' target='_blank'>Conifers.org</a> | |