Cryptomeria japonica 'Elegans Aurea'

Japanese Cedar

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Item #: 584

Zones: 5a to 9b

Dormancy: Evergreen

Height: 120" tall

Culture: Sun to Part Sun

Origin: Japan

Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L)


This is a relatively new cultivar from New Zealand, with the same wonderfully artificial feeling foliage of the species, but with a golden cast to the winter foliage instead of the usual violet. As with the species, this selection makes a slow growing, upright, small tree to 8' in 10 years.