![]() ![]() The Nootka Falsecypress or the Alaska Cedar will soften any landscape. This tree makes a striking specimen, with a distinct, graceful, weeping habit. * Currently a serious problem for the species in the wild, where climate change has resulted in decreasing snow cover, and resulting tree death. The Nootka Falsecypress or the Alaska Cedar in its native habitat can become a medium-sized evergreen tree with a weeping or pyramidal form and can reach the heights 30' to 45' tall in cultivation. I'd have been more worried if it had been hot + wet summer conditions, as that is favourable to Phytophthora root disease similar symptoms in the crown, but not reversible as the disease would continue and lead to the tree's ultimate death. ![]() The roots should regenerate, but it may be a slow recovery - expect a few years of slow growth before the canopy regains its density. Female cones are green, 1/2 inch long, with a recurved central. I have a beautiful Weeping Nootka Cypress that is standing in the way of a home addition, so it’s going to have to go. Male cones are ovoid, brownish green, and 1/8 inches long. This graceful cultivar has upward-curved branches with drooping branchlets and an open crown when mature. If the surface roots were killed by cold, that would have much the same effect as a drought (as it cuts the tree's ability to take up water), with the older, less important inner foliage sacrificed in favour of the more important outer foliage, much as yours shows.īest hope is to wait and see. This is a conical tree with drooping branches and vertical, flattened sprays of bluish green to dark green foliage. Nootka Cypress foliage is tolerant of severe cold, but its surface roots are not: where it occurs wild, it usually gets reliable deep winter snow to protect the root system*. Raised in Holland after 1884, it has been in commerce in North American since about 1907. When well sited, this Nootka Cypress is fast-growing and may. It bears an abundance of seed cones from a young age. In summer, its blue tips stand out against the rest of the foliage and create a lovely effect. Drooping branchlets hang from spreading, upcurving branches, foliage is gray-green. Incredibly beautiful, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis 'Glauca' (Nootka Cypress) is a tall evergreen conifer forming a dense, conical tree with graceful sprays of soft blue-green foliage. ![]() That could well be it, particularly if the cold wasn't accompanied by deep snow. Native to (or naturalized in) Oregon: Pyramidal tree, 30-45 ft high (9-14 m), or more, 10-15 ft (3-4.5 m) wide. ![]()
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