Alaska Cedar, Nootka Cypress (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, Cupressus nootkatensis)
The Alaska Cedar or Nootka Cypress, as it is also known, is an impressive, narrowly tapering tree which grows to heights of up to 40 metres. Soft, dark green scales. Small red-brown cones. Used for parks and gardens.
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Erscheinungsbild
The Alaska Cedar or Nootka Cypress, as it is also known, is an impressive, narrowly tapering tree which grows to heights of up to 40 metres. Soft, dark green scales. Small red-brown cones. Used for parks and gardens.
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Blatt Oberseite
Cymbiform (outer) scales and rhombic (inner) scales with sharply pointed tips and widened round base, entire. Dark green above and below. 0.2-6cm long and 0.2-0.3cm wide.
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Blüten
Flowering period IV-V. The numerous yellow male flowers are small, ovate, usually on short lateral branches. The slate-blue female flowers are inconspicuous, almost round, monoecious, on lateral branches.
Anwendung
Cemeteries, gardens, solitary tree, for planting in groups, parks, forage for birds
Heimatgebiete
Western Canada, USA (Alaska, Northwest, California)
Standortparameter
Light: sunny to off-sun; soil type: sandy-loamy to loamy; nutrient concentration: normal to high; pH value of the soil: slightly acid to slightly alkaline; soil: fresh to very moist.
Ansprüche
Very frost-hardy, may be damaged by late frost, not fume-hardy. Intolerant of soil compaction. Will be damaged by frost in excessively dry locations. Light: sun to off-sun.
unknown
30 - 40m high
Blätter
Cymbiform (outer) scales and rhombic (inner) scales with sharply pointed tips and widened round base, entire. Dark green above and below. 0.2-6cm long and 0.2-0.3cm wide.
Blüten
Flowering period IV-V. The numerous yellow male flowers are small, ovate, usually on short lateral branches. The slate-blue female flowers are inconspicuous, almost round, monoecious, on lateral branches.
Früchte
Hard, red-brown cones with bluish banding, 0.7-1cm wide, with wedge-shaped seeds on triangular notched wings. Cylindrical form, upright. Widely protruding bracts curve outwards.
Rinde
Brown-green or grey-brown bark, red-grey when young, peeling off in flakes, brown when older, peeling off in asymmetrical plates.
Wurzel
Surface-rooter.