This large coniferious tree has a solitary trunk with thick bark peels away in shaggy strips and dense horizontal branching that sweeps the ground forming a conical habit. It has dark green scale leaves and the female cones appear during spring.

Hardiness zones 5 to 10

Chamaecyparis obtusa is naturally found in Japan where it has a growth period and becomes broader with a buttress base in 100 years. It prefers a well drained fertile deep soil in a sunny full sun wind protected position and is frost tolerant but drought tender. 

Hinoki Cypress is grown for its conical habit and is planted in large gardens or parks as a lawn specimen or used along borders for screening. It establishes in 5 to 9 years and is suitable for cool mountain regions. It is valued for its straw-colour timber that is durability and fragrant and used in construction, panelling or joinery. The slow growing cultivars are used as a bonsai subject or planted in rockeries. ID 225

Chamaecyparis (kă-mie-KY-pa-ris) obtusa (ob-TEW-sa) 

Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Cripsii’  “Chamaecyparis”, from Greek chamai, “dwarf”, + Latin cyparis, “a cypress”; “obtusa”, “blunt”; “Cripsii”, after a nursery in Tunbridge Wells, England.

Cupressaceae (kew-press-AY-see-ee)
Coniferous Trees