Cupressaceae

Chamaecyparis obtusa Siebold & Zucc

(Hidayat, 2017)

Classification

Divisio: Pinophyta

Famili : Cupressaceae

Genus : Chamaecyparis

Species : Chamaecyparis obtusa

Common Name

Cemara Hias - Indonesia
Hinoki cypress (Missouri Botanical Garden) - asociated name
Hinoki false cypress  (taxonomygrin) - English
Feuerscheinzypresse  (taxonomygrin) - German

Description

Chamaecyparis obtusa is native to Japan. It is commonly called hinoki cypress or hinoki falsecypress. It is an evergreen conifer that grows 50-75’ tall (to 120' tall in its native habitat) with a pyramidal shape. It features spreading branches with flattened horizontal branchlets that droop at the ends. Dark green scale-like leaves in two sizes have white markings beneath. Crushed foliage is aromatic. Reddish brown bark will peel on mature trees. Small, 8-scaled, greenish-brown (female) to orange brown (male) cones. Although species trees are uncommonly planted in the home landscape, a large number of compact and dwarf cultivars have become very popular for use as small accents/specimens, hedges, screens and foundation/rock garden plants.

Genus name comes from Greek chamai meaning dwarf or to the ground and kyparissos meaning cypress tree.
Specific epithet means rounded in reference to its leaves being blunt/rounded at the tips.
In Japan, hinoki means fire tree (Missouri Botanical Garden)

The two varieties of this species occur in different microhabitats: C. obtusa var. obtusa is generally occupying more xeric sites on ridges or slopes; C. obtusa var. formosana can form extensive forests in atmospherically damp and often edaphically wet sites. Both occur in mixed conifer/angioserm forests, in which the conifers are mostly emergents and the angiosperms form lower layers of canopy  (Thomas 2019).

Description

Japan Korea and Far East, Taiwa Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Southern America, and South Asia.

Habit

Tree

Benefit

Ornamental Plant.

The wood of Chamaecyparis obtusa has been used for centuries in construction of temples and other traditional buildings because of its fine quality and high durability in outdoor conditions. The Japanese have largely turned to sources outside Japan to obtain timber of related species, especially those occurring on the Pacific coast of North America. This species is among the most widely used in horticulture and numerous cultivars are in the trade  (Thomas 2019).

Location at UPI

Isola Building

Other Pict.

(Hidayat, 2017)

                  Male mature cones

                       (Thomas 2019)

Juniperus sp. L

Cemara

Classification

Class Pinopsida Order Pinales Family Cupressaceae – Cypress family Genus Juniperus L

Class Pinopsida
Order Pinales
Family Cupressaceae – Cypress family
Genus Juniperus L

Common Name

Juniper

Red Cedar

Juniperus virgiana (source)

Description

The genus is characterized by fleshy cones with hard-shelled seeds, adaptations to avian seed dispersal; apart from this, all characters common to all of its species can also be found in other closely allied genera of Cupressaceae.

Habit

Tree

Distribution

North pole, Africs, Central America and Asia

Benefit

Ornamental Plant 

Location at UPI

Isola Building

Other Pict.

Juniperus sp. L
(Hidayat, 2017)