Ellwood Falsecypress                         kam-e-SIP-a-ris la-so-ni-A-na

• Conifer, evergreen shrub, 6-10 ft (1.8-3 m), narrowly upright, conical, densely arranged and ascending branches, thin blue-green branchlets.   Leaves have a needle-awl-form (i.e., tapering to a slender stiff point), blue-green, becoming steel blue in fall.   (Reminiscent of a Juniper.)
• May "come apart" with age and, unfortunately, require being tied up.  More or less dwarfed if grown from cuttings, but more vigorous and tree-like if grafted (Jacobson, 1996).
• Hardy to USDA Zone 5      Named for the head gardener, G. Ellwood, at Swanmore Park, Great Britain, where it originated as a seedling before1929.