Scientific name: Chamaecyparis pisifera Filifera Group

Common name: threadleaf cypress

Family name: Cupressaceae

Useful cultivars and selections:

USDA hardiness zone: 6

Mature height and spread: 5-7m tall, 2-3m wide

Form: pendulous, mounded

Water use: moderate

Soil requirements: well-drained. acidic

Leaf arrangement: scale-like. Opposite.

Fall colour: none.

Flower/cone/fruit description: brown cone.

Limitations: tends to revert to wild type.

Suitable uses: mass planting. Specimen.

Quick ID: conifer. Evergreen. Tree. Scale-like, opposite. Long, golden cord-like branches that are long as they don’t branch much (pendulous, long and stringy). Decurrant. Smells like celery.