Golden Hinoki Cypress Bonsai

The hinoki cypress can grow up to 40 meters 130ft tall and the trunk can reach a diameter of 3 meters 10ft.

Golden hinoki cypress bonsai. The soaring tree is often used for privacy screens because it s so tall and dense. It is an evergreen coniferous tree native to taiwan and southern japan. It has just the right balance between neatness and casualness for a modern garden and it is the perfect addition to almost any garden style from gravel and boulder beds to a japanese courtyard. Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 4 though 8.

Japanese form of cypress used for bonsai and urban landscapes. The fernspray gold hinoki cypress is a beautiful informal evergreen with golden foliage in sprays growing out from a central upright form. Also known as hinoki false cypress and. Native to southern japan the elegant dwarf hinoki cypress or chamaecyparis obtuse grows into a distinctive handsome tree.

The hinoki cypress is really a false cypress while the cupressus genus is the real cypress. A tall evergreen coniferous tree the hinoki cypress hails from southern japan. Golden hinoke cypress is an evergreen tree from asia in the cypress family that is a broadly conical tree form of hinoki cypress with spreading branches and pendant sprays of bright golden yellow foliage. Hinoki cypress chamaecyparis obtusa is an evergreen conifer native to japan that grows in u s.

Hinoki cypress trees feature globose cones that are 8 to 12 millimeters in diameter. In ten years it will be 10 feet tall and 4 feet wide a graceful column of fern like foliage that emerges in spring bright gold and it remains gold on the tips all year round. Chamaecyparis obtusa hinoki cypress. Therefore your bonsai must be maintained in a cool cold environment during the winter season.

The foliage matures to yellow on the interior of the tree with some yellow on the green tips giving it a two toned effect. A hinoki cypress bonsai is a living miniature tree and not a house plant.