Chamaecyparis pisifera
Chamaecyparis pisifera | |
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Chamaecyparis pisifera Morton Arboretum acc. 745-27*4 | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Gymnospermae |
Division: | Pinophyta |
Class: | Pinopsida |
Order: | Cupressales
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Family: | Cupressaceae |
Genus: | Chamaecyparis |
Species: | C. pisifera
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Binomial name | |
Chamaecyparis pisifera (
Endl. |
Chamaecyparis pisifera (Sawara cypress or Sawara
Description
It is a slow-growing
Related species
A related cypress found on Taiwan, Chamaecyparis formosensis (Formosan cypress), differs in longer ovoid cones 6–10 mm long with 10–16 scales.[2] The extinct Eocene species Chamaecyparis eureka, known from fossils found on Axel Heiberg Island in Canada, is noted to be very similar to C. pisifera.[3]
Name
The Latin specific epithet pisifera, “pea-bearing”, refers to the small round green cones.[4]
Uses
Timber
It is grown for its timber in Japan, where it is used as a material for building palaces, temples, shrines and baths, and making coffins, though less valued than the timber of C. obtusa. The wood is lemon-scented and light-colored with a rich, straight grain, and is rot resistant.[5]
Ornamental
It is also a popular ornamental tree in
In cultivation in the UK the following have gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit[6] (confirmed 2017):[7]
- ‘Boulevard’:[8] 8 m (26 ft), blue-green foliage
- ‘Filifera Aurea’:[9] rounded, needle-like golden foliage, to 12 m (39 ft)
- ‘Plumosa Compressa’:[10] dwarf to 90 cm (35 in), soft mossy foliage on young plants
- ‘Sungold’:[11] rounded shrub to 3 m (9.8 ft) tall and wide, with needle-like lime green foliage
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Grove of 80-year-old trees
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Foliage and cones
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Central trunk of a tree
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Bark
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Path in the Togakushi Shrine lined with C. pisifera
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Bonsai example
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Foliage of the juvenile cultivar 'Boulevard', with soft feathery needle-like leaves
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Cultivar 'Golden Charm'
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Cultivar 'Filifera aurea'
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Leaves of the Filifera aurea
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Cultivar 'Sungold'
References
- ^ . Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- ^ ISBN 1-84246-068-4
- doi:10.1139/B03-007.
- ISBN 978-1845337315.
- ^ a b Dallimore, W., & Jackson, A. B. (1966). A Handbook of Coniferae and Ginkgoaceae 4th ed. Arnold.
- ^ "RHS Plantfinder -".
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(help) - ^ "AGM Plants - Ornamental" (PDF). Royal Horticultural Society. July 2017. p. 16. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
- ^ "RHS Plantfinder - Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Boulevard'". Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ^ "RHS Plantfinder - Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Filifera Aurea'". Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ^ "RHS Plantfinder - Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Plumosa Compressa'". Retrieved 30 January 2018.
- ^ "RHS Plantfinder - Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Sungold'". Retrieved 30 January 2018.