Sawara False Cypress, Boulevard Cypress, Blue Moss Cypress

The straight species is a good-looking green tree that gets about 30 to 60 feet high under landscape conditions in the US, and it is some...Read Morewhat commonly planted in southeast PA, and there are a few planted in the Chicago region and other parts of the Midwest and East; native to Japan. It grows at the typical medium rate of 1.5 ft/yr like most conifer trees. It drops little needles and tiny roundish cones much of the year, like other coniferous trees, especially in autumn. It does well in regular residential landscapes. There is a huge number of various cultivars taken from this species. Many have yellow or bluish foliage, many are bushes propagated from cuttings, and many cultivars are extremely unnatural and horribly used in landscape design; actually there is no real design oftentimes with the mutations.