Cryptomeria japonica 'Compressa'

Dwarf, slow growing, with conical habit with numerous protruding, crowded leading branches with the needles bent back; brown in winter. Imported from Japan to Holland in 1942.

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Pinopsida
order     Pinales
family      Taxodiaceae
genus       Cryptomeria D.Don
species        Cryptomeria japonica (L.f.) D.Don