Cultivars
'Expansa'
This dwarf conifer can grow to 1m (3ft) at the centre and up to 3m (10ft wide thick spreading red-brown stems forming a prostrate to a low mound habit. It branchlets are drooping with clusters of dark green leaves and the plant is used as a ground cover or as a rockery specimen. 

'Expansa Aureospicata'
This spreading very slow growing dwarf conifer has blue-grey predominately juvenile leaves that have irregular sprays of yellow; otherwise it is the same as 'Expansa'.

'Expansa Variegata'
This spreading dwarf conifer has irregular sprays of creamy-white leaves otherwise it is the same as 'Expansa'.