![]() ![]() Leaves will emit an unpleasant odor when rubbed or crushed. I guess because it can be considered a non compliant evergreen because it has it’s own style and it’s own personality. It is an excellent specimen tree that features a nodding central leader with widely-spaced ascending to arching to horizontal branches from which droop branchlets clad with flattened sprays of scale-like blue-green to gray-green leaves. 103 Comments Weeping Nootka Cypress, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis ‘Pendula’ I’m not sure I can explain why, but the Weeping Nootka Cypress is one of my favorite evergreens. ‘Pendula’ is a slender, pyramidal, strongly weeping form that may grow to as much as 35’ tall and 12’ wide over 35 years, but is often seen growing much smaller. Specific epithet means of Nootka Sound, British Columbia. Some strong evidence suggests, however, that it maybe should be placed in the monotypic genus Callitropsis. This plant was originally described in the genus Cupressus, which many botanist consider to be correct, but has also been placed in Chamaecyparis and Xanthocyparis (as done here). Although it may grow from 60-90’ tall in the wild, it usually grows much shorter in home landscapes. Drooping sprays of small, scale-like, bluish-green leaves. It is an evergreen conifer that will grow slowly to as much as 60-90' tall in the wild and live for 1000+ years. It is native to moist soils in bottomlands, along streams and in ravines along the Pacific Coast from southeastern Alaska to northern California. ![]() Xanthocyparis nootkatensis is commonly called Nootka cypress, Alaska-cedar or yellow cypress. ![]()
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