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Key to Conifers
Chamaecyparis - False Cypress
Trees; branchlets forming more or less flattened sprays;
adult leaves scale-like, opposite (juvenile foliage needle-like);
cones globose, small, about 5-10 mm in diameter; cone scales peltate.
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Chamaecyparis obtusa - Hinoki Cypresss - Brnchlets
and mature seed cone
(Photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
VA)
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Chamaecyparis obtusa - Hinoki Cypresss - Mature
seed cone
(Photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
VA)
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Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Nana' - Hinoki Cypresss,
one of the dwarf forms withclosely spaced, arcuate
sprays of branchlets.
(Photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
VA)
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Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Cripsii'- Hinoki Cypresss
- A form with yellowish brnchlets.
(Photographed at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond,
VA)
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