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ToddB wrote:

onetree wrote:hmmm.....
what you call "Chamaecyparis obtusa: forest from seed"may be a totally different animal,....
just check one more time for me please,.... are you sure???
But i do like the other forests...thanks for sharring

Onetree, I'm almost certain it's a Hinoki cypress. The seedlings look nothing like the mature tree from which I collected the seed. Similar to chinese juniper in that respect. Spikes turn into scales as the foliage matures.

Shouldn't it have a scale like foliage which grows horizontally and vertically? rather than a needle like foliage from your image.

xIIRevoEvoS wrote:

ToddB wrote:

onetree wrote:hmmm.....
what you call "Chamaecyparis obtusa: forest from seed"may be a totally different animal,....
just check one more time for me please,.... are you sure???
But i do like the other forests...thanks for sharring

Onetree, I'm almost certain it's a Hinoki cypress. The seedlings look nothing like the mature tree from which I collected the seed. Similar to chinese juniper in that respect. Spikes turn into scales as the foliage matures.

Shouldn't it have a scale like foliage which grows horizontally and vertically? rather than a needle like foliage from your image.

Alan, the foliage becomes scale-like as the tree matures...I have monterey cypress and chinese juniper that are exactly the same. Immature foliage is spikey, but reverts to scales as the tree/branch matures. Some of my trees have both forms of foliage the same branch.

Mini forests (group planting) looking awesome! Never had much interest in them up until now! Thanks!