{"id":7173,"date":"2015-01-07T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=7173"},"modified":"2014-12-19T22:06:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T03:06:12","slug":"many-shapes-and-sizes-of-cryptomerias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2015\/01\/07\/many-shapes-and-sizes-of-cryptomerias\/","title":{"rendered":"Many Shapes and Sizes Of Cryptomerias"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Cryptomeria ‘Radicans’<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cryptomeria ‘Globosa Nana’<\/p><\/div>\n

Japanese cedar, aka cryptomeria, (Cryptomeria japonica<\/i>) is the national tree of Japan and is also indigenous\u00a0to China (USDA hardiness zones 5 to 8).\u00a0 Cryptomeria cultivars vary greatly from very dwarf to rounded shrubs to large tree forms. Needle-like foliage may be dark green, medium green,\u00a0golden or contorted leaves.<\/p>\n

Cryptomerias tolerate hot humid summers and prefer deep, moist, well-drained\u00a0soils with an\u00a0acidic to neutral pH, and\u00a0in full to half-day sun. Two-year trees are moderately drought tolerant.<\/p>\n

Spring-summer foliage is bright green; leaves of many cultivars often turn bronzy in winter. Gold needle cultivars are available but not listed here. The\u00a0rusty red bark, peeling in vertical strips, is also very attractive; older trees are\u00a0frequently limbed up to show off the bark.
\nCryptomeria contracts no major pests and diseases. On occasion, a fungal blight causes inner needles to turn reddish brown; prune out discolored foliage and\u00a0toss from the property.<\/p>\n

This mighty evergreen is wind tolerant, standing up to strong hurricanes; needles are salt tolerant. The upright branches hold up well to snow loads. Tall cryptomerias are easily trained and maintained as a tall single leader tree and utilized\u00a0as\u00a0privacy screens or windbreaks.<\/p>\n

Cultivars to plant:<\/b><\/p>\n

Tall tree\u00a0forms\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

\u2018Yoshino\u2019- the most popular cultivar at 30-40 feet height;\u00a0bright green needles bronze off in winter in zone 6.<\/p>\n

\u2018Ben Franklin\u2019- difficult to find at nurseries; similar to Yoshino in size and form; needles retain their green color through most of winter.<\/p>\n

\u2018Radicans\u2019 – tall upright pyramidal form, 20 to 30 feet tall x 7 to 10 feet wide; eventually to 40 feet high at maturity; holds its very dark green color throughout winter compared to Yoshino.<\/p>\n

Intermediate\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

\u2018Black Dragon’ \u2013medium height @ 10-12 feet high x 6 feet wide; deep green needle-like leaves.<\/p>\n

\u2018Gyokuryu\u2019 – compact upright pyramid habit @ 10-15 feet high; dark green foliage with\u00a0slight winter bronzing.<\/p>\n

Shrub forms\u2026<\/b><\/p>\n

\u2018Globosa Nana\u2019 – compact shrub form 2 to 3 feet high and wide, almost ball shaped.<\/p>\n

\u2018Elegans Nana\u2019 – globose compact form to 5-6 feet high.<\/p>\n

\u2018Tansu\u2019 – 2 feet x 3 feet dense compact form with rich green foliage; slow grower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Japanese cedar, aka cryptomeria, (Cryptomeria japonica) is the national tree of Japan and is also indigenous\u00a0to China (USDA hardiness zones 5 to 8).\u00a0 Cryptomeria cultivars vary greatly from very dwarf to rounded shrubs to large tree forms. Needle-like foliage may be dark green, medium green,\u00a0golden or contorted leaves. Cryptomerias tolerate hot humid summers and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[444,1049,778,806,617,800,853,936,1060,601,630,646,7,113,455,642],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7180,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7173\/revisions\/7180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}