Description
C. lawsoniana – Cupressus lawsoniana – Lawson False cypress – Oregon Cedar – Lawson Cypress – Port Orford Cedar -This narrowly columnar, coniferous tree from humid coastal forest in Western North America grows 50-130′ feet tall and 6-15′ feet wide. It can have 4′ feet diameter trunk .It has a dense crown, a pendent leading shoot, and reddish brown bark forming rounded, scaly plates. It produces blue-green to bright green mature leaves which are arranged in opposite pairs, they are sharply pointed, with incurved tips and translucent central glands. Oblong male cones, to 3/8″ long, are bluish black in bud, opening brick red. The wrinkled, reddish brown, sometimes glaucous female cones, to ½” across, each have 8 scales. There are some 180 cultivars some dwarf, some with yellow foliage
‘Lutea’ – grows 50-70′ feet tall and is narrowly columnar or conical, slow growing at first, with pendent sprays of golden yellow foliage.
Grow in any well drained soil (including alkaline or acidic) in full sun. Shelter from cold, dry winds.
zones 5-9
