Slow-growing, stiff, dwarf, conical bush with upright branches. Foliage mostly adult in fan-like sprays but juvenile foliage often persists at the base of the plant. Cones are produced freely. In New Zealand's Garden of Tane, Akaroa, a specimen of this 'dwarf' cultivar is recorded at 22 m tall with a 68 cm circumference at breast height; it was planted in the 1870s or 80s. Seedling grown in the Canchois Nsy, Andelys, France in 1850.