Platycladus orientalis 'Elegantissima'

국표에는 없다.

Common Name: oriental arborvitae  

Type: Needled evergreen

Family: Cupressaceae

Zone: 5 to 9

Height: 10.00 to 15.00 feet

Spread: 6.00 to 10.00 feet

Bloom Time: Non-flowering

Bloom Description: Non-Flowering

Sun: Full sun to part shade

Water: Medium

Maintenance: Medium

Suggested Use: Hedge

Leaf: Colorful, Evergreen

Other: Winter Interest

 

Culture

Grow in fertile, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun. Tolerates some light afternoon shade. Appreciates good air circulation. Water plants regularly in hot and dry weather. In St. Louis, site in locations sheltered from strong winds. Plants may not be reliably winter hardy throughout the northern parts of USDA Zone 5.

Noteworthy Characteristics

Platycladus orientalis, commonly called Oriental thuja or Oriental arborvitae, typically grows as a dense, conical to columnar tree to 18-25’ tall. Also grows as a large shrub. Plants tend to open up with age. Scale-like yellowish-green leaves in flattened sprays in youth, becoming darker green with age. Foliage may bronze up in winter. Oval cones (to 3/4” long). Reddish-brown bark. Compact shrubby cultivars are much more common in cultivation than the species. Synonymous with Thuja orientalis and Biota orientalis.

Genus name comes from the Greek platys meaning broad and klados meaning a branch for the branchlets being two-ranked in a vertical plane.

Specific epithet means of the Orient.

‘Elegantissima’ is a conical to narrow pyramidal shrub that grows over time to 15’ tall and features scale-like golden yellow foliage in flattened sprays. Foliage becomes yellow-green as the growing season progresses and then acquires bronze tones by winter. This plant is synonymous with and sometimes sold as Thuja orientalis ‘Elegantissima’.

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