Chamaecyparis obtusa ‘Filicoides’

‘Filicoides’ (often commonly called fernspray hinoki cypress) grows slowly as an open shrub or as a small narrow tree to 16′ tall. It features pendant flattened sprays of fern-like foliage on straggly branches. Filicoides means fern-like. It is commonly called hinoki cypress or hinoki falsecypress. It is an evergreen conifer that grows with a pyramidal shape. It features spreading branches with flattened horizontal branchlets that droop at the ends. Dark green scale-like leaves in two sizes have white markings beneath. Crushed foliage is aromatic. Reddish brown bark will peel on mature trees. Small, 8-scaled, greenish-brown (female) to orange brown (male) cones.