Sawara Cypress
ചമേസിപാരിസ് പിസിഫെറ
Chamaecyparis pisifera (Siebold & Zucc.) Endl.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 43 m
- wide
- 25 m
Cupressaceae
Formerly Chamaecyparis filifera, Chamaecyparis leptoclada, Chamaecyparis plumosa, Chamaecyparis squarrosa, and 11 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Japan (S. Honshu, C. Kyushu)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 35 m to 50 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 25 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -34.4 °C (USDA zone 4a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Czech
- cypřišek hrachonosný
- Welsh
- cypreswydden Sawara
- Slovenian
- graškasta pacipresa
- Chinese
- 日本花柏
- Simplified Chinese
- 五彩松, 日本花柏
- Malayalam
- ചമേസിപാരിസ് പിസിഫെറ
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- 3D model: Chamaecyparis pisifera (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.