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Plant: Red Star - Chamaecyparis
Chamaecyparis · Chamaecyparis thyoides 'Red Star'
Size: 3 gal
Light
Mature size
More about this plant
‘Red Star’ is a colorful cultivar of white cypress, a needled evergreen tree or shrub in the cypress family (Cupressaceae). Its foliage changes with the seasons: silvery blue in spring, deep blue-green in summer, and rich purple-bronze in winter. That color shift gives the landscape interest in every season.
The parent species is native to the wetlands and bogs of the eastern United States. ‘Red Star’ has local roots: Humphrey J. Welch discovered it in the 1960s at Tennessee Valley Nursery in Winchester, Tennessee.
The genus name Chamaecyparis comes from the Greek chamai (“dwarf” or “low to the ground”) and kyparissos (“cypress”).
- Full Sun
- Grows to 20 ft tall and 12 ft wide
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-8
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
‘Red Star’ is a colorful cultivar of white cypress, a needled evergreen tree or shrub in the cypress family (Cupressaceae). Its foliage changes with the seasons: silvery blue in spring, deep blue-green in summer, and rich purple-bronze in winter. That color shift gives the landscape interest in every season.
The parent species is native to the wetlands and bogs of the eastern United States. ‘Red Star’ has local roots: Humphrey J. Welch discovered it in the 1960s at Tennessee Valley Nursery in Winchester, Tennessee.
The genus name Chamaecyparis comes from the Greek chamai (“dwarf” or “low to the ground”) and kyparissos (“cypress”).
- Flowers
- No flowers - the pollen bearing cones are small and often reddish, growing from the branch tips.
- Foliage
- Short, closely compressed leaves are scale like in flattened sprays with whitish x like markings on the underside.
- Bark & stems
- Reddish-brown bark will peel on mature trees.
- Native range
- Formosa, Japan
