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Chamaecyparis obtusa (Japanese cypress, hinoki cypress [2] or hinoki; Japanese: 檜 or 桧, hinoki) is a species of cypress native to central Japan in East Asia, [3] [4] and widely cultivated in the temperate northern hemisphere for its high-quality timber and ornamental qualities, with many cultivars commercially available.
[3] The Tokugawa Shogunate sought to restrict the abuse of construction timber. [1] The Tokugawa-affiliated Bishû clan was one of three to own the Kiso forests; they restricted felling the forest's trees to their clan in 1665. [1] In 1708, this restriction was revised to include the Hinoki cypress, the Sawara cypress, the umbrella-pine, and ...
Chamaecyparis, common names cypress or false cypress (to distinguish it from related cypresses), is a genus of conifers in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to eastern Asia (Japan and Taiwan) and to the western and eastern margins of the United States. [1]
Cypress-pines (Callitris species), Australia and New Caledonia [15] False cypress (Chamaecyparis species), Asia and North America. [16] Fujian cypress (Fokienia hodginsii), southeastern China [17] Guaitecas cypress (Pilgerodendron uviferum), western Patagonia [18] and Tierra del Fuego [13] Japanese cypress (Chamaecyparis obtusa), East Asia
It is a slow-growing coniferous tree growing to 35–50 m tall with a trunk up to 2 m in diameter. The bark is red-brown, vertically fissured and with a stringy texture. The foliage is arranged in flat sprays; adult leaves are scale-like, 1.5–2 mm long, with pointed tips (unlike the blunt tips of the leaves of the related Chamaecyparis obtusa (hinoki cypress), green above, green below with a ...
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The leaves are scale-like, 2–4 mm (3 ⁄ 32 – 5 ⁄ 32 in) long, and produced in opposite decussate pairs on somewhat flattened shoots; seedlings up to a year old have needle-like leaves. The tree is bare of branches for three-fourths of the trunk height and the bark can be ash-gray to reddish brown.
As of August 2021, it has only one species, Xanthocyparis vietnamensis, [3] native to Vietnam and southeast China. [2] It is commonly known as the Vietnamese golden cypress . The Nootka cypress, Cupressus nootkatensis or Callitropsis nootkatensis , was also placed in the genus, but this has been rejected.