Slender Hinoki Falsecypress            kam-e-SIP-a-ris ob-TU-sa

• Conifer, evergreen tree, to 20 ft (6 m), slow growing, conical, more compact than species; branches outspread; branchlets slender, arching, irregularly arranged.   Leaves short, dense, closely pressed, of two sizes, the lateral pair much larger than facial leaves, glossy dark green above, light green below.  Cones short-stalked, solitary, globose ("volleyballs"), 8 mm diam.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 4      Species from Japan, Taiwan; this cultivar was imported from Japan to Europe about 1862.
• obtusa: blunt, the leaves
• Oregon State Univ. campus: near southwest entrance to Cordley and nearby Ag. & Life Science arch.