| Specific Name: Chamaecyparis pisifera |
| Hardiness Zones: 4 to 8 |
| Growth_Rate: Moderate |
| Site Requirements: Sun; moist, well drained soil |
| Texture: Medium |
| Form: Pyramidal; loose open habit with age; numerous branches |
| Height: 50 to 70' |
| Weight: 10 to 20 |
| Leaf: Small leaves in horizontal planes; bright green with silvery line underneath |
| Flower/Fruit: .25" cones; crowded; yellowish brown |
| Comments: Lower branches may die with age |
| Habit: Evergreen |
| Cultivars: Boulevard, Filifera, (Drooping stringy branches; dense mound 6 to 8'), Lemon Thread, Filifera Aurea, Nana Aureovariegata, Snow, Tsukuma |