Foliage Notes:
Green (Lustrous dark green to dull bluish-green evergreen foliage); Brown (Foliage often turns yellowish brown in winter)
Fruit Notes:
Brown (Small cones; not ornamentally important)
Soil Notes:
Fairly adaptable, but performs best on moist to wet soils with good aeration; tolerates slightly alkaline soils
Diagnostic Characteristics:
Needle-like leaves (juvenile only) are darker green above and a lighter dull green below. Leaves on main branches have a small yellowish gland on abaxial surface. Scales of cones overlap (Chamaecyparis cone scales open up). No hooks on cone scales as in Platycladus.
