Hinoki Cypress
Chamaecyparis obtusa · Cupressaceae · 편백
How to spot it
Characterized by flat fan-shaped sprays of scale leaves pressed close to the twig, with white X- or Y-shaped marks on the underside.
Look
- Leaves
- Scale leaves cling densely to flat twigs, and the underside has whitish marks.
- Flowers
- Instead of flowers, small pollen cones form at the twig tips and are often reddish.
- Fruit
- Small seed-bearing cones ripen from green to brown and usually have 8 to 10 cone scales.
- Bark
- The reddish-brown bark of mature trees peels off.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Planted
- Native to
- Japan and Taiwan.
- Ecology
- In the wild it grows in mountain forests.
Sources
- NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
- 국립수목원 국가표준재배식물목록(개정)
- Virginia Tech Dendrology Fact Sheet / Hinoki falsecypress
- Flora of China / eFloras, Chamaecyparis obtusa
- Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria / HortFlora, Chamaecyparis obtusa
- 국립생물자원관, 국가생물종목록 I(2019)
- 산림청·국립수목원 (2012), 한국의 가로수 — 나무가 만드는 아름다운 길
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- 한국관광공사 대한민국 구석구석
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