Male and female flowers both every small male flowers yellow female flowers blur clusters at tips of the winter shoots.įruits and seeds: Cones 3/8” wide, globose ripe in two years. In the ‘Variegata’ cultivar the foliage sprays are irregularly blotched creamy white.įlowers: Monoecious. nootkatensis leaves do not have white markings on the undersurface moreover, crushed leaves of C. Foliage sprays flattened, long and pendent. Leaf tips sharp and not tightly pressed against branchlet. Leaves: Leaves scale-like very small with free, pointed tips, keeled, dark green above and paler beneath in aromatic flattened sprays and pressed close to the shoot. Trunk/Stem: Bark Red-brown to orange-brown, stringy branchlets are quadrangular and they become red-brown after one year. Habitat forests and moist coastal mountain slopes. Large branches sweep downward the lift upward at the ends foliage on branchlets hangs like curtains. Old trees have greatly buttressed, fluted trunks with huge burls. Usually narrowly conical total tree shape. Species Origin: North Western North America Nootkatensis refers to the Nootka Sound in British Columbia.Ĭommon name: Blue Nootka false cypress (Alaska Cedar) The genus name comes from the Greek chamai meaning dwarf or to the ground an kyparissosmeaning “cypress tree”. The very fast growing, garden-popular tree, Leyland Cypress, xCupressocyparis leylandi, is a hybrid of Cupressus macrocarpa and Chamaecyparis nootkatensis. nookatensis ‘Pendula’ which has pendulous branches and rich green foliage. nootkatensis ‘Glauca’, which has bluish leaves, and C. There are about 15 cultivars available including C. In this discussion we follow Dirr (2009). There is some debate which genus this plant should be placed with: Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, Callitropsis nootkatensis or Xanthocyparis nootkatensis. The tree is native to northwestNorth America. The tree ranges in height from 30 to 50 feet and 10 to 15 feet in width. The leaves are blue-green on top but paler beneath. The branchlets are reddish-orange and somewhat curled. Its ever-present leaves, which are small and scale-like, decorate its drooping branchlets. Native from Alaska south to British Columbia and south along the Cascade Mountains to northern California.Because theblue Nootka falsecypress(Chamaecyparis nootkatensis ‘Glauca’) has small, brown, soccer-shaped cones growing from its branch tips, it belongs to the conifer family.Propagate by grafting and semi-hardwood cuttings.May be affected by honey fungus and Phytophthora root diseases.Appreciates some afternoon shade in the southern part of its range. Tolerant of chalk soils but prefers slightly acidic soil.
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Full sun to part shade lover, this plant is easily grown in average, moist, well-drained soils.A pleasure to look at year-round, this stately selection makes an excellent specimen conifer. When well sited, this Nootka Cypress is fast-growing and may easily add one or more feet (> 30 cm) in height and width per year. It bears an abundance of seed cones from a young age. In summer, its blue tips stand out against the rest of the foliage and create a lovely effect. Incredibly beautiful, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis 'Glauca' (Nootka Cypress) is a tall evergreen conifer forming a dense, conical tree with graceful sprays of soft blue-green foliage.
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