Latin Name: Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Crippsii'
Height: 8 - 15 feet
Spread: 3 - 5 feet
Sunlight: Full Sun; Part Sun; Part Shade
Hardiness Zone: 4-9
Description:Hinoki Golden Falsecypress features yellow-green foliage that is more intense in full sun. The color also gives a two-tone affect, especially when factoring in the spreading, graceful branches of pendant sprays. The conical habit helps make this cultivar a showy specimen as well as an option for an informal hedge. It possesses a slow to moderate growth rate and does not require any pruning, although one is able to do an occasional shearing.
Attracts: Birds
Other Names: False Cypress; Japanese Cypress; Hinoki-Cypress; Cripp's Golden Hinoke