Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Shiva' 26/5 Restock the rockrose family of the

the rockrose family of the dry Mediterranean hills

then a research geneticist at the Arboretum

productive

and one of the loveliest single flowers in the genus

northeast India

Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Shiva' 26/5 Restock the rockrose family of theA silvery, soft textured juvenile foliage form with an unusual and well documented history. 'Shiva' was originally presumed to be Chamaecyparis thyoides, the Atlantic white cedar, but now appears to be a form of Chamaecyparis pisifera, the sawara cypress of Japan. The plant was found as a seedling on Cape Cod by Rekha Morris of Pendleton, South Carolina, and introduced by Clarence Towe of Walhalla, South Carolina. By all signs this curious form will